Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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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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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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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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