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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
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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Children Death Life Tragedy
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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Dog Fight Necessary
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Children Genius Hope
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
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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Government Myself Peace Thinking
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Freedom Powerful Problem World
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Art Himself Leadership
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Children Existence Necessary Problem Understood World
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Hate Live Myself Stupidity War
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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Leadership Responsibility Wrong
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
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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Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
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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Myself People Right

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