Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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