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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.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

The history of free men is never really written by chance-but by choice-their choice.

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