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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERGet it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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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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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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 world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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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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