Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Steady Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first-the most basic-expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God's help, it will continue to be.
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There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
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The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.
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I think the women, therefore, must be concerned with these values, and I return to my statement that if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
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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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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
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Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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.
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This we do know: a world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.
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The chief of staff says I'm the guy.
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The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple. ... They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.