Dwight D. Eisenhower
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.Collection: Leadership
Unless we progress, we regress.Collection: Progress
We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.Collection: People
No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.Collection: Struggle
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.Collection: Numbers
A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.Collection: Soldier
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.Collection: Science
I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.Collection: Persuasion
A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.Collection: Blessing
I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.Collection: Believe
Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.Collection: Done
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.Collection: Hands
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Patriotic
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.Collection: Fun
Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.Collection: Book
Don’t join the book burners!Collection: Book
The winning of war – the effectiveness in such things – is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.Collection: Country
In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country’s most powerful resource in peace and war.Collection: Country
Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things – call them what you will – I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.Collection: Real
We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America’s real message to the rest of the world.Collection: Real