So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIn 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?
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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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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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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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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