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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
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
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
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
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
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 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
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
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
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Achievement Foundation Security Strength
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
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
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

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