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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
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.
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Deep Food Loss Weapon
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Achievement Community Effort Serious War
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Myself Word Worry
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Easy Search
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
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
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
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
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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Freedom Prison Security
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
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Blessing Greatness
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
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
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
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
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Philosophy 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.
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Existence Government Potential Power Rise
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
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
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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Children Death Life Tragedy
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Art Leadership People

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