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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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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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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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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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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 problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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