Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Company

• There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Me

• Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Want
  • Government
  • Interest

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Up
  • Time
  • Him

• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Defense
  • Logical
  • Implement

• I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Too Much

• The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Australia

• There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Pleasure
  • More
  • Still

• I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • Love
  • Just

• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • God
  • Always
  • Waiting

• I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• MTV shows me love.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Me
  • Shows

• The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Women
  • Love
  • College

• I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Down

• After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Women
  • Years
  • Congress

• People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Why
  • Humanity

• Whenever you make a big effort and take risks, getting good results and points is very rewarding.

  

  Dani Pedrosa
  • Results
  • Make
  • Getting

• Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Voice

• I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • People

• He felt that sense of being necessary which is the burden and reward of parenthood.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower