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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

(1890 - 1969)

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
Kindness
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.
Loss - State - Unions
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
Boundaries - Man
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.
Ability - Citizenry - Mindset - Whole
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.
Quest - Relaxing
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.
Eternity
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.
Almighty - Dedication - Giving - Mindset - Right - Security
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

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.
Avoidance
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
Inspiration - Pessimism - President
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Boredom - Patriotism - Politics - Whole
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.
Countries - Growing - Influence - President - Strength
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
Dependence - Human - Progression - Rich
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Fighting
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

Public opinion wins wars.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

Take your job seriously, but not yourself
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.
Belief - Traditions
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.
Independence - Playing - Sport
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.
Saints
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.
Difficulty - Loss - Proof
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
Follower - Leadership - Man
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law.
Accounting - Actions - Hearing - Humility - Judging - Man
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

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.
Human - Management - Priority
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Protesting
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.
Belief - State - Unions
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

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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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
Fixing
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.
Linguistics - Translation
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
Human
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .
Conditioning - Countries - Deal - Excellence - Relaxing - Sport
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