You don't lead by hitting people over the head - t... -Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower , President
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States. He served as President from 1953 to 1961 and played a significant role in the Allied victory during World War II.

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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it....
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....
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man...
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war....
War settles nothing....
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it....
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 ...
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity....
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!...
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As ...

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