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Make It A Practice To Avoid Hating Anyone. If Someone's Been Guilty Of Despicable Actions, Especially Toward Me, I Try To Forget Him. I Used To Follow A Practice - Somewhat Contrived, I Admit - To Write The Man's Name On A Piece Of Scrap Paper, Drop It Into The Lowest Drawer Of My Desk, And Say To Myself: "that Finishes The Incident, And So Far As I'm Concerned, That Fellow." The Drawer Became Over The Years A Sort Of Private Wastebasket For Crumbled-up Spite And Discarded Personalities.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Make It A Practice

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Make It A Practice To Avoid Hating Anyone. If Someone's Been Guilty Of Despicable Actions, Especially Toward Me, I Try To Forget Him. I Used To Follow A Practice - Somewhat Contrived, I Admit - To Write The Man's Name On A Piece Of Scrap Paper, Drop It Into The Lowest Drawer Of My Desk, And Say To Myself: "that Finishes The Incident, And So Far As I'm Concerned, That Fellow." The Drawer Became Over The Years A Sort Of Private Wastebasket For Crumbled-up Spite And Discarded Personalities.

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We Must Be Strong At Home If We Are Going To Be Strong Abroad. We Understand That. So We Want To Be Strong At Home In Our Morale Or In Our Spirit, We Want To Be Strong Intellectually, In Our Education, In Our Economy And, Where Necessary, Militarily.

Any Nations Right To A Form Of Government And Economic System Of Its Own Choosing Is Inalienable. Any Nations Attempt To Dictate To Other Nations Their Form Of Government Is Indefensible.

You Don't Lead By Hitting People Over The Head - That's Assault, Not Leadership.

Every Leader Should Have Enough Humility To Accept, Publicly, The Responsibility For The Mistakes Of The Subordinates He Has Himself Selected And, Likewise, To Give Them Credit, Publicly, For Their Triumphs.

Freedom From Fear And Injustice And Oppression Will Be Ours Only In The Measure That Men Who Value Such Freedom Are Ready To Sustain Its Possession - To Defend It Against Every Thrust From Within Or Without.

Injustice And Oppression

When People Speak To You About A Preventive War, You Tell Them To Go And Fight It. After My Experience, I Have Come To Hate War.

A Good Teacher Is One Who Can Understand Those Who Are Not Very Good At Explaining, And Explain To Those Who Are Not Very Good At Understanding.

Politics Should Be The Part-time Profession Of Every Citizen.

Under The Clouds Of War, It Is Humanity Hanging On A Cross Of Iron.

Pessimism Never Won Any Battle.

Farming Looks Mighty Easy When Your Plow Is A Pencil And You're A Thousand Miles From The Corn Field.

Personal Prayer, It Seems To Me, Is One Of The Simplest Necessities Of Life, As Basic To The Individual As Sunshine, Food And Water-and At Times, Of Course, More So. By Prayer I Mean An Effort To Get In Touch With The Infinite. We Know That Our Prayers Are Imperfect. Of Course They Are. We Are Imperfect Human Beings. A Thousand Experiences Have Convinced Me Beyond Room Of Doubt That Prayer Multiplies The Strength Of The Individual And Brings Within The Scope Of His Capabilities Almost Any Conceivable Objective.

Every Step We Take Towards Making The State Our Caretaker Of Our Lives, By That Much We Move Toward Making The State Our Master.

Before A Battle, Planning Is Everything. Once The Fighting Has Begun, It's Worthless

The One Weapon Every Man, Soldier, Sailor, Or Airman Should Be Able To Use Effectively Is The Rifle. It Is Always His Weapon Of Personal Safety In An Emergency, And For Many It Is The Primary Weapon Of Offence And Defense. Expertness In Its Use Cannot Be Over Emphasized.

I Have Full Confidence In Your Courage And Devotion To Duty And Skill In Battle. We Will Accept Nothing Less Than Full Victory! Good Luck! And Let Us Beseech The Blessing Of Almighty God Upon This Great And Noble Undertaking.

A Nation's Hope Of Lasting Peace Cannot Be Firmly Based Upon Any Race In Armaments But Rather Upon Just Relations And Honest Understanding With All Other Nations.

The Stop-watch Of History Is Running. The Race Is On . . .

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