All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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