Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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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