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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.
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Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Myself Word Worry
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
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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Freedom Prison Security
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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History Powerful Teaching
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
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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Dog Fight Necessary
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
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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Leadership Responsibility Wrong
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
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Justice One Liner Peace
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
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Action Yourself
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Freedom Powerful Problem World
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
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
I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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Ideas Integrity Man Myself
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
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
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
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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Afraid Book Library Reading Yourself
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.
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Company Learning Yourself
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

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