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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Failure Leaving
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Hate Live Myself Stupidity War
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Children Genius Hope
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Politics Right Wrong
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Himself Man Tears Worth
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Determination Foundation Moral Politics Power
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Death Flower Freedom Heart Life Man Spirit
We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Dedication Fear Need Ourselves Strength World
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Development Experience
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Atheist Care Game Man Win
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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

Action Man Wisdom

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