Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERLeadership 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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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for 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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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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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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