Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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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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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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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 made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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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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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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