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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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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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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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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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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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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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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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