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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWar is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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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.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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I 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.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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