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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

People Thinking Waste Yourself
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
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
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
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
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
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
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
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
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
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Art Leadership People

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