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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
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
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
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Decision Ourselves Rule
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Myself Word Worry
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
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
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
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
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
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
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
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.
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Afraid Book Library Reading Yourself
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Children Existence Necessary Problem Understood World
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Bad Blame Heart Love 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?
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Achievement Community Effort Serious War
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Choice War
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Company Learning 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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Existence Government Potential Power Rise
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Myself People Right
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Children Death Life Tragedy
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Choice Freedom History Man
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Determination Foundation Moral Politics Power
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

History Powerful Teaching

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.

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