Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe 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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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