The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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