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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThose who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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