Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.

  The Chance for Peace (1953)

  • Guns
  • War & Peace

• You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

  • Leadership

• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  • Leadership

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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