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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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Funny Mistake Myself
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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Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste 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
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
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Myself People Right
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Force Justice Man Peace Protection
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
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
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Children Existence Necessary Problem Understood World
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Listen Myself Serious Talk War
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth

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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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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