We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle 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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