The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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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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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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In 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?
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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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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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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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