Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThey may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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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 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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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 could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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