Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quotations
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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. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“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.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“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.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“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
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“In the councils 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.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“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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“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“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.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“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
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“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“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.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“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.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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