Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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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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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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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