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. EISENHOWERAn atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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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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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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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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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 history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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 problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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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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