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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThrough 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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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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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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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