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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Politics Right Wrong
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Easy Search
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Children Death Life Tragedy
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Deep Food Loss Weapon
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
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
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Yourself
Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Future History Road
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
Pessimism never won any battle.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Battle Win
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Alone Attachment Blame
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
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
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Philosophy World
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Failure Leaving

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