Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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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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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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