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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
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
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
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
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Myself Word Worry
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Leadership People Yourself
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
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Justice One Liner Peace
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
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
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
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Leadership Responsibility Wrong
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Man Wisdom
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Decision Ourselves Rule
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
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
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
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Children Existence Necessary Problem Understood World
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Honesty Loyalty
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Future History Road
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Care Government Myself Religious
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Life Power Wrong

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