Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes - page 4

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country. View quote
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good. View quote
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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? View quote
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. View quote
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The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. View quote
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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)
It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living. View quote
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You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly. View quote
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I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. View quote
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. View quote
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