If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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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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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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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.
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