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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.

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspirational, Success, Leadership

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Years, Voters, Politician
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.813, Best Books on

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom, Exercise, Rights

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Trying, Knows, Better Than You

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Hate
Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Teacher, Teaching, Understanding

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Progress, Principles, Chaos
Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.705, Best Books on

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom, Tyrants, America
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957". Book by United States Government Printing Office, 1999.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lying, Book, Thinking
Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Believe, Army, Government

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspirational, Life, Basketball
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on

And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center, this place of worship, is just as welcome as could be a similar edifice of any other religion. Indeed, America would fight with her whole strength for your right to have here your own church and worship according to your own conscience. This concept is indeed a part of America, and without that concept we would be something else than what we are.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Islamic, Heart, Fighting

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hunting, Accountability, Blame

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hands, Voting, American Voters
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men, Giving, Binding

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Numbers, Common Sense, Faces

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bible, God, Religious
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.274, Best Books on

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom, Essence, Honor And Respect
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.30, Best Books on

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Funny, Relationship, Leadership

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mistake, Humility, Responsibility

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Government, Bed, Want
Speech to luncheon clubs, Galveston, Texas, December 8, 1949, The New York Times, p. 23, December 9, 1949,.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Political, Disputes, Extremes

Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Decision, Presidential, Mob Rule
Address to the Nation on Desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, delivered 24 September 1957, Washington, D.C.

There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life, Responsibility, Exercise