Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes - Famous Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Born: 1890-10-14
Died: 1969-03-28
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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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.
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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.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
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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.
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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.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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.
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
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When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
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