If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWhat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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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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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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