In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNeither 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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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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