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And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Age: 78 †
Born: 1890
Born: October 14
Died: 1969
Died: March 28
34Th U.S. President
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Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.
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We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
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Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
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One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.
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I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
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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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United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.
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...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
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In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.
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Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.
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