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"70 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes & Sayings

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Born: October 14, 1890. Died: March 28, 1969 | President | Statesman |

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

Center Despise Either Gutter
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Dates Rarely Terminal Problems
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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Resign Cannot Desk Die
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Miles Corn Easy Field
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Test Major Good Every
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From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Behind Curtain Hard Signs
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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.

Army Field Football Gang
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Any Crazy Either Man
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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.

Better Days Peace Get
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Counts Dog Fight Necessarily
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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Ever Know Office Old
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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.

Screens Face Half Rooms
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Intellectual Knows Man More
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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Allow Myself Use Word
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Pessimism never won any battle.

Battle Any Won Never
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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Everything Nothing Planning Plans
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I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Korea Make Shall Trip
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I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Atomic Life Feel Warfare
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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.

Order Admit Best Hope
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Beg Only Cooperate Strength
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Choice Chance Free History
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Assault Over Lead Head
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Care Wins Game Man
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Home Far One Number
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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.

Ability Include Peaceful War
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Search Absolute Vain Bankrupt
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

History Today Way Like
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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Noble True Sense Politics
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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Survival Included Our Simple
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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Keep Free Only Faith
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Wish String Pull Push
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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Wealth Nation Spirit Fiber
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The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Lousy Talk Hear Word
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Defend Within Far Trying
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Past Worthy Itself Prove
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Climate Peace Seek Freedom
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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.

Gone Scared Long Stick
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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.

Heritage Fruitful Free Protect
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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 Process First Wisdom
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Politics Battle Lose Last
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Fight Even Peace Going
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

First Heart Pass Come
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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Accept Certain Inhibitions Uniform
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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.

Trust Proud Fear Avoid
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Brutality War Hate Lived
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

History Party Hear Farm
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Disloyal Confuse Honest Doctrine
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Before Ever Like More
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Above Both Loses People
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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.

Care Total Medical Freedom
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes & Sayings