70+ Best Dwight D. Eisenhower | Minimalist Quotes

What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Deep Important
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Easy Search
I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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Ideas Integrity Man Myself
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Bad Blame Heart Love Yourself
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.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Yourself
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.
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Deep Food Loss Weapon
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
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
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
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
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Children Death Life Tragedy
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Choice War
How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
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
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
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Himself Man Tears Worth
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
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
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
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
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth

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