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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.
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Existence Government Potential Power Rise
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
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
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
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
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
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
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.
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Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
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
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
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
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
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Children Genius Hope
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Action Man Wisdom
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
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
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Leadership People Yourself
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
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
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

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