47 quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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

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“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“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

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“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“I have 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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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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