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.
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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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