What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAlways try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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