Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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