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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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Government Myself Peace Thinking
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
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
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
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
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.
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Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
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
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Leadership People Yourself
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
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

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