I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
From Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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