May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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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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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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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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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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