I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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 world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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