Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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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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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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