What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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