An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Never 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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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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