We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was renowned as a World War II general who commanded Allied forces in Operation Torch and...

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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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.

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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Sometimes you have to trust that you're worth it and you have to fight for what you want.

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I think that when enough time has passed, when you've survived that which you didn't imagine you could, there's a dignity in that. Something you can own. A pride in knowing the pain made you stronger. The pain made you fight to succeed. Someday, when I'm living my dreams, I'm going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I'm going to be thankful for them.

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It is horrifying that we have to fight our government to save the environment.

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