Top 100 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.
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#3. In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon.
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#4. 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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#5. There is one thing about being President
nobody can tell you when to sit down.
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#6. Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.
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#7. The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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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#10. Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.
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#12. Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.
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#13. Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.
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#14. The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.
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#15. Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.
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#17. 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.
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#18. I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.
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#21. For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!
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#23. The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.
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#24. Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.
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#25. The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
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#27. In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.
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#28. I don't like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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#29. Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.
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#30. You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.
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#31. In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.
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#32. Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.
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#34. Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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#35. 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.
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#36. I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.
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#37. The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.
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#38. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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#43. Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.
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#45. We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,
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#46. As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
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#47. The exchange of students ... should be vastly expanded ... Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
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#48. Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
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#49. The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.
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#50. You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
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#51. Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists ...
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#53. The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.
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#54. 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.
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#56. There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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#58. Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements ... the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.
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#59. The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it
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#60. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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#61. The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values
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#62. This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.
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#64. And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.
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#65. When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
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#67. I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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#68. Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.
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#69. It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.
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#70. We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
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#72. We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.
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#73. I also ache at that thought your majesty ... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.
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#77. It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.
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#79. The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.
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#80. No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.
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#82. Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.
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#83. Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
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#85. 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.
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#86. United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.
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#88. The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty ... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
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#89. We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
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#90. Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.
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#91. 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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#92. The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home ... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion ... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.
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#94. Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.
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#95. May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.
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#96. A world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.
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#97. Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.
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#99. Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.
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#100. I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)
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