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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThey may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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 history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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