69 result(s) for Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes.
"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."
"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."
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative."
"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice - their choice."
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield."
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"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom."
"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
"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."
"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose."
"The supreme quality of leadership is unquestionably integrity."
"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."
"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth."
"A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone?"
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"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
"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."
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield."
"The supreme quality is unquestionably integrity. Without it, success is elusive."
"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."
"The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions."
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
"Expect only five percent of an intelligence report to be accurate. The trick of a good commander is to isolate the five percent."
"Integrity is the supreme quality of leadership."
"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people."
"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable."
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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."
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head—that's assault, not leadership."
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
"The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost all for the future, then this makes it urgent that we fashion a design for a world peace that is based on a global agreement."
"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."
"America is best described by one word, freedom."
"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."
"The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good."
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book."
"History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
"People talk about the middle of the road as though it were undesirable. Actually, it is very comfortable."
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible."
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership."
"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."
"Pessimism never won any battle."
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration, and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
"The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters."
"Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like."
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog."
"War settles nothing."
"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"
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