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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Failure Leaving
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
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Action Death Flower Freedom Heart Life Man Spirit
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Force Justice Man Peace Protection
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Listen Myself Serious Talk War
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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History Powerful Teaching
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Philosophy World
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Justice One Liner Peace
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Art Himself Leadership
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
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.
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Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Determination Foundation Moral Politics Power

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