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  1. 1

    A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Principles
  2. 2

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

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Atheism
  3. 3

    An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Intelligence and Intellectuals
  4. 4

    Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Uncategorised
  5. 5

    But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President anybody that it wants, regardless of the number of terms he has served. That is what I believe. Now, some people have said You let him get enough power and this will lead toward a one-party government. That, I dont believe. I have got the utmost faith in the long-term common sense of the American people. Therefore, I dont think there should be any inhibitions other than those that were in the 35-year age limit and so on. I think that was enough, myself.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Uncategorised
  7. 6

    But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. 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. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Uncategorised
  8. 7

    Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Lies and Lying
  9. 8

    Every gun that is fired, 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. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    War
  10. 9

    Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Farming and Farmers
  11. 10

    Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    United States of America
  12. 11

    History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Freedom
  13. 12

    How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
  14. 13

    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.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    General
  15. 14

    I am convinced that the French could not win the war because the internal political situation in Vietnam, weak and confused, badly weakened their military position. I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the fighting, possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader rather than Chief of State Bao Dai. Indeed, the lack of leadership and drive on the part of Bao Dai was a factor in the feeling prevalent among Vietnamese that they had nothing to fight for. As one Frenchman said to me, What Vietnam needs is another Syngman Rhee, regardless of all the difficulties the presence of such a personality would entail.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Uncategorised
  16. 15

    I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Uncategorised
  18. 16

    I doubt if Montgomery ever came to realise how resentful some American commanders were. They believed he had belittled them — and they were not slow to voice reciprocal scorn and contempt

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
  19. 17

    I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    War
  20. 18

    I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. -- On his childhood

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Poverty and The Poor
  21. 19

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

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    United States of America
  22. 20

    I have serious doubts about the value of debates in a presidential election. They tend to be a test of reaction time rather than a genuine exposition of the participants philosophies and programs. Further, in debate, candidates tend to overstate their views. In the 1960 situation I had a very practical objection: Nixon was widely known; Kennedy was not; dramatic debates would therefore help Kennedy.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Uncategorised
  23. 21

    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 the way and let them have it.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Uncategorised
  24. 22

    I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someones been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practicesomewhat contrived, I admitto write the mans name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: That finishes the incident, and so far as Im concerned, that fellow. The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Uncategorised
  25. 23

    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.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Uncategorised
  26. 24

    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.

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Persuasion
  27. 25

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

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Age and Aging

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