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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?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Deep Important
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Myself Word Worry
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
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

Destroy Problem Yourself
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
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Yourself
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Existence Government Potential Power Rise
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Freedom Peace Seek
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Greatness Leadership Necessary Yourself
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

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