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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

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Greatness Leadership Necessary Yourself
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
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
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
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Children Genius Hope
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
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
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
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Listen Myself Serious Talk War
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
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
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

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