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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

They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Failure Leaving
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Easy Search
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
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
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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Future History Road
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Blessing Greatness
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Yourself
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
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
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
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Justice One Liner Peace
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

Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
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
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
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
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
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
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Care Government Myself Religious
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
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
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner

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