Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNeither 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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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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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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