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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
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

Care Government Myself Religious
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
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Freedom Powerful Problem World
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Existence Government Potential Power Rise
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
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Listen Myself Serious Talk War
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

History Powerful Teaching
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Afraid Book Library Reading Yourself
I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Ideas Integrity Man Myself
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Freedom Peace Seek
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Stupidity War
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
I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Funny Mistake Myself
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Discipline Freedom
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Force Justice Man Peace Protection
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
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Leadership Responsibility Wrong
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Development Experience
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Bad Blame Heart Love Yourself
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Failure Leaving
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Leadership People Yourself
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

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