Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAll generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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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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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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