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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Future History Road
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Alone Attachment Blame
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Choice War
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Freedom Peace Seek
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Deep Food Loss Weapon
War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Achievement Foundation Security Strength
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Art Himself Leadership
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Yourself
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?
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Achievement Community Effort Serious War
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Afraid Book Library Reading Yourself

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

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