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You Can Decide To Invade Russia At Dinner, Pick Waterloo For Battle On A Whim. It's The Details, The Small Stuff. Its Easy To Gamble A Million Lives. Whats Hard Is To See How That Can Hurt One Single Person. And If You Cant Keep That Straight, Hell, You'll Lose Your Humanity.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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You Can Decide To Invade Russia At Dinner, Pick Waterloo For Battle On A Whim. It's The Details, The Small Stuff. Its Easy To Gamble A Million Lives. Whats Hard Is To See How That Can Hurt One Single Person. And If You Cant Keep That Straight, Hell, You'll Lose Your Humanity.

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More Than Any Single Action By The Government Since The End Of The War, This One Would Change The Face Of America With Straightaways, Cloverleaf Turns, Bridges, And Elongated Parkways. Its Impact On The American Economy-the Jobs It Would Produce In Manufacturing And Construction, The Rural Areas It Would Open Up-was Beyond Calculation.

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Black And White

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In The Highest Sense The Bible Is To Us The Unique Repository Of Eternal Spiritual Truths.

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The One Quality That Can Be Developed By Studious Reflection And Practice Is The Leadership Of Men.

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In The Service, When A Man Gives You His Word, His Word Is Binding. In Politics, You Never Know.

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The Seeker Is Never So Popular As The Sought. People Want What They Can't Get.

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Only Americans Can Hurt America.

As Nuclear And Other Technological Achievements Continue To Mount, The Normal Life Span Will Continue To Climb. The Hourly Productivity Of The Worker Will Increase.

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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?

Well, It's Hard For A Mere Man To Believe That Woman Doesn't Have Equal Rights.

I Have Spent My Life In The Study Of Military Strength As A Deterrent To War, And In The Character Of Military Armaments Necessary To Win A War. The Study Of The First Of These Questions Is Still Profitable, But We Are Rapidly Getting To The Point That No War Can Be Won.

I Hate War As Only A Soldier Who Has Lived It Can, Only As One Who Has Seen Its Brutality, Its Futility, Its Stupidity.

We Are Tired Of Aristocratic Explanations In Harvard Words.

Some People Wanted Champagne And Caviar When They Should Have Had Beer And Hot Dogs.

Inflation Is Not A Robin Hood, Taking From The Rich To Give To The Poor. Rather, It Deals Most Cruelly With Those Who Can Least Protect Themselves. It Strikes Hardest Those Millions Of Our Citizens Whose Incomes Do Not Quickly Rise With The Cost Of Living. When Prices Soar, The Pensioner And The Widow See Their Security Undermined, The Man Of Thrift Sees His Savings Melt Away; The White Collar Worker, The Minister, And The Teacher See Their Standards Of Living Dragged Down.

Despite The Present, Temporary Interests That Israel Has In Common With France And Britain, You Ought Not To Forget That The Strength Of Israel And Her Future Are Bound Up With The United States.

We Are So Proud Of Our Guarantees Of Freedom In Thought And Speech And Worship, That, Unconsciously, We Are Guilty Of One Of The Greatest Errors That Ignorance Can Make - We Assume Our Standard Of Values Is Shared By All Other Humans In The World.

I’m Going To Pass A Law That No One Can Ask Me My Golf Score.

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.

The Other Day Aks And I Went Up To Your Ranch For A Day's Fishing. I Cannot Remember Any Day When We Have Had More Fun On A Stream. We Had Along With Us Three Newspaper Men And A Few Secret Service People, Many Of Whom Had Never Seen A Trout Stream, So We Did The Thing Up Right By Borrowing Frying Pans, Bacon And Corn Meal From The Wife Of Your Rancher - And We Cooked An Outdoor Meal For The Crowd. It Was Really Quite A Day.

Most Things Which Are Urgent Are Not Important, And Most Things Which Are Important Are Not Urgent.

The Older I Get The More Wisdom I Find In The Ancient Rule Of Taking First Things First. A Process Which Often Reduces The Most Complex Human Problem To A Manageable Proportion.

Inspirational Life

Remember That It Is Not By A Tyrant's Words, But Only By His Deeds That We Can Know Him.

The Righteousness Of Men Should Be Treated With The Same Respect That One Would Accord To A Rattlesnake. Things Are More Like They Are Now Than They Ever Were Before.

It Is Still A Fact That Our Common Frontier Grows Stronger Every Year, Defended Only By Friendship.

Only By Trusting In God Can A Man Carrying Responsibility Find Repose.

The Winning Of War - The Effectiveness In Such Things - Is In The Heart, In The Determination, In The Faith. It Is In Our Beliefs In Our Country, In Our God, Everything That Goes To Make Up America.

Plans Are Nothing; Planning Is Everything.

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. It Is Spending The Sweat Of Its Laborers, The Genius Of Its Scientists, The Hopes Of Its Children. This Is Not A Way Of Life At All In Any True Sense. Under The Clouds Of War, It Is Humanity Hanging On A Cross Of Iron.

If Men Can Develop Weapons That Are So Terrifying As To Make The Thought Of Global War Include Almost A Sentence For Suicide, You Would Think That Man's Intelligence And His Comprehension... Would Include Also His Ability To Find A Peaceful Solution.

The Qualities Of A Great Man Are Vision, Integrity, Courage, Understanding, The Power Of Articulation, And Profundity Of Character.

I'll Tell You What Leadership Is. It's Persuasion And Conciliation, And Education, And Patience.

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.

Better Than You

We Know Something Of The Cost Of That War. We Were In It From December Seventh, '41, Till August Of '45. Ever Since That Time, We Have Been Waging Peace. It Has Had Its Ups And Downs Just As The War Did.

Politics Ought To Be The Part-time Profession Of Every Citizen Who Would Protect The Rights And Privileges Of Free People And Who Would Preserve What Is Good And Fruitful In Our National Heritage.

Preparing For Battle, Plans Were Essential. But Once The Battle Was Joined, Plans Were Useless.

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