47 quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“War settles nothing.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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