Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes - Page 18

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• You did not tell me what you are doing athletically just now but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring you can get it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the best game of all of them.

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  Sports, Spring, Golf

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• War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

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  War, Mean, Evil

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• The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators.

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  Government, Today, Determined

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• The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

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  Time, Past, World

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• In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

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  War, Justice, Use

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.289, Best Books on

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• From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.

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  Children, School, Dedication

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.563, Best Books on

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• Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

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  Art, America, World

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

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  Truth, Honesty, Freedom

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.456, Best Books on

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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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  Stay Strong, Men, Long

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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.

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  Military, Iron, Trouble

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.7, Best Books on

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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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  Music, Peace, Military

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• I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

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  Time, Age, Saving

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• Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.

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  Jobs, Discovery, Giving

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• First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

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  War, Air, American Veterans

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• One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

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  Powerful, Men, Order

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• I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.

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  War, Believe, Loss

  The New York Times, p. 15, March 16, 1968.

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• Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

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  Government, Goes On, Helping

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• I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

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  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

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  Men, History, Mad

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• If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.

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  Military, Air, Supremacy

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• Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

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  War, Giving, Signals

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• [Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

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  Disappointment, Party, Nuclear

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• No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

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  Office, Political, Should

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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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  Time, Fear, Women

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• The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

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  Country, Safety, Purpose

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.327, Best Books on

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