Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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.
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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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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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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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