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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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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.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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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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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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