Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes - page 2

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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.
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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
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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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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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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.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
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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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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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The sergeant is the Army.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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.
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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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.
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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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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.
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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
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