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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Action Man Wisdom
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Leadership People Yourself
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Philosophy World
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Listen Myself Serious Talk War
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Art Himself Leadership
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
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.
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Destroy Problem Yourself
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Easy Search
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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