If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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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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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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 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.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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