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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Myself People Right
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Discipline Freedom
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Atheist Care Game Man Win
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Listen Myself Serious Talk War
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Blessing Greatness
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Company Learning Yourself
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

Hate Live Myself Stupidity War
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Failure Leaving
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
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Children Genius Hope
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Man Wisdom
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Existence Government Potential Power Rise
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Future History Road
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Leadership Responsibility Wrong

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