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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

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Life Power Wrong
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Blessing Greatness
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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

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

Failure Leaving
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Alone Attachment Blame
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Choice Freedom History Man
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Yourself
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Listen Myself Serious Talk War
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Death Flower Freedom Heart Life Man Spirit
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Dedication Fear Need Ourselves Strength World

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