All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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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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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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 made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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