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1. "Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. "Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
3. "The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. "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..." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
5. "Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
6. "Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. "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." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
8. "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." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
9. "There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
10. "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
11. "The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
12. "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?" ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
13. "Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
14. "Pessimism never won any battle." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
15. "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
16. "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." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
17. "In the councils 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." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
18. "This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
19. "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
20. "I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
21. "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
22. "You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
23. "The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
24. "We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
25. "Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
26. "Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
27. "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." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
28. "I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?" ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
29. "Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
30. "Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
31. "Only Americans can hurt America." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
32. "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." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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