What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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