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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Funny Mistake Myself
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Life Power Wrong
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
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
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Choice War
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Force Justice Man Peace Protection
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Government Myself Peace Thinking
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
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
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Man Wisdom
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Justice One Liner Peace
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
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

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