You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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Get 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.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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.
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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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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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