They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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