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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Satisfaction Time
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Leadership People Yourself
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Achievement Foundation Security Strength
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

Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Development Experience
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
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Art Leadership People
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.
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Ideas Integrity Man Myself
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Hate Live Myself Stupidity War
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Philosophy World
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Children Genius Hope
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Destroy Problem Yourself

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