Authors - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brief Biography
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942-43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1098by Anonymous on 10/01/2011
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
Quote 1106by Anonymous on 10/01/2011
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency.
Quote 1166by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Quote 1209by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
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.
Quote 1235by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Quote 1695by Anonymous on 15/01/2011
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Quote 1747by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
There is one thing about being President, no one can tell you when to sit down.
Quote 1826by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
In the counsels 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. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
Quote 2010by Anonymous on 21/01/2011
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Quote 2104by Anonymous on 22/01/2011
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Quote 2361by Anonymous on 28/01/2011
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Quote 2363by Anonymous on 28/01/2011
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Quote 2460by Anonymous on 30/01/2011
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
Quote 2570by Anonymous on 02/02/2011
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.
Quote 2602by Anonymous on 02/02/2011
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.
Quote 2786by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
Quote 2880by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.
Quote 3039by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
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.
Quote 3094by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable 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.
Quote 3098by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
Quote 3116by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Quote 3213by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
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.
Quote 3241by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.
Quote 3251by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
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.
Quote 3324by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice.
Quote 3408by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Quote 3532by Anonymous on 06/02/2011
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Quote 3608by Anonymous on 07/02/2011
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Quote 3721by Anonymous on 09/02/2011
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Quote 3776by Anonymous on 10/02/2011
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.
Quote 3945by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
Quote 4026by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Quote 4327by Anonymous on 19/02/2011
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Quote 4336by Anonymous on 20/02/2011
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be temped to risk his own destruction.
Quote 4423by Anonymous on 21/02/2011
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Quote 4457by Anonymous on 21/02/2011
The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
Quote 4576by Anonymous on 23/02/2011
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Quote 4588by Anonymous on 23/02/2011
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.
Quote 4609by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.
Quote 4632by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.
Quote 4638by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Quote 4659by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Quote 4711by Anonymous on 26/02/2011
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Quote 4878by Anonymous on 03/03/2011
When you are in any contest you should work as if there were, to the very last minute, a chance to lose it.
Quote 7641by Anonymous on 08/01/2012
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Quote 8928by Anonymous on 06/06/2012
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Quote 10737by Anonymous on 24/10/2012
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
Quote 11796by Anonymous on 23/01/2013
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Quote 13858by Anonymous on 12/09/2013
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
