A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIn preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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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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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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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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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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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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