Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERA sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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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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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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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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