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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.
Remarks at the Republican National Committee Breakfast, January 31, 1958, 1958
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Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in WWII before serving two terms as president, returned often to the theme that inner determination matters far more than outward size or advantage.

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