History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAn atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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 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 time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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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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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.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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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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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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