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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
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
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Bad Blame Heart Love Yourself
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Achievement Foundation Security Strength
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Yourself
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
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
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
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
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.
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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
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
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
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.
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Ideas Integrity Man Myself
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
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
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
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame
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
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
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Leadership People Yourself

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