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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

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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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Determination Foundation Moral Politics Power
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Atheist Care Game Man Win
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Leadership People Yourself
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
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
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
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Justice One Liner Peace
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
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
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner
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
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
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
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Himself Man Tears Worth
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Blessing Greatness
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame
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
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
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Action Yourself
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
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
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

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