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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Children Death Life Tragedy
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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Determination Foundation Moral Politics Power
True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
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.
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Existence Government Potential Power Rise
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Easy Search
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.
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Freedom Prison Security
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Children Existence Necessary Problem Understood World
Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Honesty Loyalty
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Destroy Problem Yourself
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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Government Myself Peace Thinking
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Freedom Powerful Problem World
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Justice One Liner Peace
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth

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