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I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
How far you can go without destroying from within
what you are trying to defend from without?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation
can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The history of free men is never really written by chance
but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem -
and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have found out in later years that we were very poor,
but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
There are a number of things wrong with Washington.
One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is far more important to be able to hit the target
than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I despise people who go to the gutter
on either the right or the left
and hurl rocks at those in the center.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency.
The country is entitled to both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower {political}
In the final choice, a soldier's pack
is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only Americans can hurt America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
This world of ours... must avoid becoming
a community of dreadful fear and hate,
and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts
by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
History does not long entrust the care of freedom
to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength,
and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days government had better
get out of their way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil
and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The sergeant is the Army.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,
only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die,
but from which he cannot resign.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The problem in defense is
how far you can go without destroying from within
what you are trying to defend from without.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people
than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour
looking at my face on their television screens.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Well, when you come down to it,
I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Unlike presidential administrations,
problems rarely have terminal dates.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The clearest way to show what the rule of law
means to us in everyday life
is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Together we must learn how to compose differences,
not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We will bankrupt ourselves in
the vain search for absolute security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humility must always be the portion of any man
who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers
and the sacrifices of his friends.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny
is in trouble and reminders that its structure
is as brittle as its surface is hard.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence,
is a continuing imperative.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world
must first come to pass in the heart of America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Any man who wants to be president
is either an egomaniac or crazy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing wrong with America
that faith, love of freedom, intelligence,
and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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