Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERGood luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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