A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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