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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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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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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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