70+ Best Dwight D. Eisenhower | Minimalist Quotes

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.
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Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
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
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.
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Company Learning Yourself
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
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 problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Philosophy World
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Myself Word Worry
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
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
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Action Man Wisdom
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
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
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Atheist Care Game Man Win
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Art Leadership People
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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History Powerful Teaching
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
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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Funny Mistake Myself

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