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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Choice War
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
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
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.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Yourself
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
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Force Justice Man Peace Protection
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
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
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.
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Government Myself Peace Thinking
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
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
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Action Death Flower Freedom Heart Life Man Spirit
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.
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Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Blessing Greatness
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Children Existence Necessary Problem Understood World
We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Dedication Fear Need Ourselves Strength World
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
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
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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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
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

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