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Title: ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:21:43 AM
Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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A five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961, and the last to be born in the 19th century.
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961, and the last to be born in the 19th century. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.

Here are some famous quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:22:07 AM
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:22:34 AM
Oh that lovely title ex-president.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:22:59 AM
In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:23:22 AM
The president cannot escape from his office.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:23:49 AM
Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:24:13 AM
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:24:37 AM
No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:25:01 AM
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:25:34 AM
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:26:04 AM
The world moves and ideas that were good once are not always good.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:26:26 AM
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:26:52 AM
When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:27:16 AM
Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:27:40 AM
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:28:04 AM
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:28:28 AM
There is one thing about being President no one can tell you when to sit down.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:28:55 AM
Politics is a profession; a serious complicated and in its true sense a noble one.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:29:18 AM
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault not leadership.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:29:45 AM
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:30:16 AM
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:30:40 AM
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:31:06 AM
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:31:30 AM
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:31:53 AM
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:32:18 AM
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:32:44 AM
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership of getting along with people of getting things done.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:33:08 AM
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:33:32 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:33:58 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:34:22 AM
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:34:44 AM
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:35:13 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:35:38 AM
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:36:00 AM
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:36:23 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:36:45 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:37:08 AM
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:37:31 AM
Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives by that much we move toward making the State our Master.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:37:59 AM
Few women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:38:36 AM
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:39:00 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:39:23 AM
In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:39:59 AM
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:40:26 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:40:50 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:41:13 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:41:38 AM
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:42:01 AM
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable 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.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:42:32 AM
From this day forward the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town every village and rural schoolhouse the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:43:00 AM
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:43:25 AM
This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:43:53 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2014, 08:44:19 AM
In the counsels of Government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.