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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Easy Search
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
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
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
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
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
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
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Blessing Greatness
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
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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Alone Money War Weapon World
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame
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.
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Company Learning Yourself
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Freedom Powerful Problem World
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
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
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
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
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
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Children Genius Hope
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Destroy Problem Yourself
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
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
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Leadership People Yourself

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