Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes - Page 6

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• Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Understanding, Agents, Temples

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• Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.

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  Peace, Military, Cost

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• Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important than their differences.... The common responsibility of all Americans is to become effective, helpful participants in a way of life that blends and harmonizes the fiercely competitive demands of the individual and society.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Responsibility, Men

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• I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

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  Patriotic, Thinking, America

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• If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, America, Promise

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.18, Best Books on

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• I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

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  War, Stupid, Men

  Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, www.dwightdeisenhower.com. June 03, 1947.

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• Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

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  Done, Want, Way

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• May we grow in strength — without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. And so shall America — in the sight of all men of good will — prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Justice, Earth, May

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957".

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• Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

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  Inspirational, Success, Dog

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• I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

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  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Awful, Surrender

  Newsweek, p. 107, November 11, 1963.

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• A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Race, Understanding, Honest

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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  Peace, Military, Patriotic

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• Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

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  Freedom, 4th Of July, Flower

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• Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

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  Children, Calamity, Educated

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.575, Best Books on

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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.

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  Inspirational Life, Priorities, Firsts

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

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  Love, America, Energy

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

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  Military, Farewell, Responsibility

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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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.

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  War, Childhood, Presidential

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• Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

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  Expression, Firsts, Recognition

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

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  War, Dark, Evil

  1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

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• Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

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  Inspiring, Leadership, Fear

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

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  Funny, Sports, Atheist

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• I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

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  Strong, Military, Believe

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

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  Military, America, Tests

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