Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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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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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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