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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
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
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
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
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
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.
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Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner
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
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Freedom Powerful Problem World
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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Government Myself Peace Thinking
Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Care Government Myself Religious
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

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