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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
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
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
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
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Myself People Right
Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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Afraid Book Library Reading Yourself
We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Dedication Fear Need Ourselves Strength World
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 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
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
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
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Choice War

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