What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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