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Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Dedication Fear Need Ourselves Strength World
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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Alone Money War Weapon World
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Art Leadership People
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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Hate Live Myself Stupidity War
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.
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Future History Road
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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Funny Mistake Myself
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame
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
Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Blessing Greatness
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Leadership People Yourself
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Philosophy World
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Achievement Foundation Security Strength
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
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Myself People Right
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Children Death Life Tragedy
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
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
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
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
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself

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