Dwight Eisenhower Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Dwight Eisenhower Quotes and Sayings
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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
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War settles nothing.
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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The sergeant is the Army.
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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
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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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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.
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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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.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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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.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
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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.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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.
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