Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERDon’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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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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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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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