Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Ideas Integrity Man Myself
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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History Powerful Teaching
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
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
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
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
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
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
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
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
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
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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Hate Live Myself Stupidity War
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
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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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
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.
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Action Death Flower Freedom Heart Life Man Spirit
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
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Myself Word Worry
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
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
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

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