The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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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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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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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