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Of these greater things I speak to you tonight. It seems to me right to do so here, in Philadelphia, where our forefathers defined the principles by which our nation was born and has ever lived.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I'm going to command the whole shebang.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
In such a world-at such a time--'a decent respect for the opinion of mankind'-in the words of our Declaration of Independence-requires that we state plainly the purposes we seek, the principles we hold.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Our time of national political debate is almost ended. The clamor of these days will soon subside. And your day of thoughtful decision swiftly nears.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. … No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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 -
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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 -
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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All the historic precedents, the soaring graphs, the staggering statistics-these measure size more than substance. And the largeness and greatness of our nation would be almost a mockery-without a matching greatness of heart and largeness of vision as we look out upon the world.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower