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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
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
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Choice War
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
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
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
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
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Development Experience
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
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
War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
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 history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
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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