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Dwight Eisenhower

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"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."	Time
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."	Leadership
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."	Government
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."	Government
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."	Freedom
"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."	Politics, War & Peace
"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."	War & Peace
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."	Leadership
"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency."	Politics
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it."	War & Peace
"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"	America
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."	War & Peace
"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."	War & Peace
"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."	Politics
"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."	America, War & Peace
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."	Comedy
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends."	Miscellaneous
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."	Freedom
"From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty."	God
"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."	Age

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