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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERStatesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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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