An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAll generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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