What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWorry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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.
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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 world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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