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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Easy Search
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
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
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
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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Leadership Responsibility Wrong
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.
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Book Evidence Existence Library Reading 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
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
Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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Future History Road
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?
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Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Justice One Liner Peace
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Children Death Life Tragedy
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
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.
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Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Yourself

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