Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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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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