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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Achievement Community Effort Serious War
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
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.
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Determination Foundation Moral Politics Power
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
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Choice War
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Action Yourself
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Action Man Wisdom
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 who are cold and are not clothed.
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Deep Food Loss Weapon
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Myself Word Worry
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
War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
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
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Leadership People Yourself

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