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"70 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes & Sayings

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Born: October 14, 1890. Died: March 28, 1969 | President | Statesman |
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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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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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Any Crazy Either Man
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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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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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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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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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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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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Dates Rarely Terminal Problems
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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 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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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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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Allow Myself Use Word
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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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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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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Beg Only Cooperate Strength
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership Art Done Want
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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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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.

Clothed Cold Every Fed
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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Absurd Breath Mention Name
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The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

Peace Day People Leaders
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There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Love Cure Faith Energy
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Action Ensure Real Today
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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?

Aims Achieve Effort Scare
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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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The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Both Clear Country Entitled
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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.

Able Far Hit Over
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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.

Law Rule Recall Show
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Courts Obey Orders Troops
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Orders Court Room Basic
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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.

Found Glory Know Later
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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Survival Included Our Simple
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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Always Nearly Knees Neat
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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.

Age Fear Few Long
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Coin Justice Peace Same
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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Always Good Ideas Moves
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Care Long Timid Weak
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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Existed Ever Book Join
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Cannot Problem Solved
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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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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes & Sayings