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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Satisfaction Time
How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
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
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
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner
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
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
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
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Battle Myself Planning Preparation
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
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Honesty Loyalty
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Choice War

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