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.

Quote by Dwight D Eisenhower

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history...

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history...

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game...

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game...

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and...

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and...

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and...

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and...

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more...

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more...

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a...

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a...

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

War settles nothing.

War settles nothing.

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

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

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right...

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right...

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday...

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday...

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than...

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than...

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick...

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick...

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend...

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend...