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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
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Art Himself Leadership
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Philosophy World
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Himself Man Tears Worth
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
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Achievement Community Effort Serious War
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
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Myself Word Worry
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Choice Freedom History Man
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Leadership People Yourself
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Dog Fight Necessary
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Deep Important
Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Care Government Myself Religious

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

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