Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.
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It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
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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.
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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.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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The right of no nation depends upon the date of its birth or the size of its power. As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so-we believe-there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.
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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.
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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
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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.
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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We –finally-look upon change, the every-unfolding future, with confidence rather than doubt, hope rather than fear. We, as a people, were born of revolution. And we have lived by change-always a frontier people, exploring-if not new wilderness-then new science and new knowledge.
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
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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.
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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.
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
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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.
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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.
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We are-proudly-a people with no sense of class or caste. We judge no man by his name or inheritance, but by what he does-and for what he stands.
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I share the sense of shock and dismay that the entire nation must feel at the despicable act that took the life of the nation's president. On the personal side, Mrs. Eisenhower and I share the grief that Mrs. Kennedy must now feel. We send to her our prayerful thoughts and sympathetic sentiments in this hour.