A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERFreedom 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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