They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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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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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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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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