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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
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
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Art Leadership People
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
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.
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Deep Food Loss Weapon
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Development Experience
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
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Atheist Care Game Man Win
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
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
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Hate Live Myself Stupidity 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
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
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
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

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