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Always 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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
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
Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
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
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner
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
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
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
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
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
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
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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Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
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.
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Determination Foundation Moral Politics Power
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
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
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
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.
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Care Government Myself Religious
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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Leadership Responsibility Wrong
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
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
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
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Action Man Wisdom
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty

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