Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes - page 5

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored. View quote
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. View quote
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The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world. View quote
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. View quote
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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. View quote
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You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets. View quote
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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 don't believe. I have got the utmost faith in the long-term common sense of the American people. Therefore, I don't 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. View quote
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Patriotism means equipped forces and a prepared citizenry. Moral stamina means more energy and more productivity, on the farm and in the factory. Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible--from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius of our scientists. View quote
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A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations. View quote
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This we do know: a world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world. View quote
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone. View quote
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There is one thing about being President - nobody can tell you when to sit down. View quote
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts. View quote
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War settles nothing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first-the most basic-expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God's help, it will continue to be. View quote
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The hunger for peace is too great, the hour in history too late, for any government to mock men's hopes with mere words and promises and gestures. [...] There is, before all peoples, a precarious chance to turn the black tide of events. If we failed to strive to seize this chance, the judgment of future ages will be harsh and just. If we strive but fail and the world remains armed against itself, it at least would need be divided no longer in its clear knowledge of who has condemned humankind to this fate. View quote
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Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it. View quote
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Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
I'm going to command the whole shebang. View quote
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Men like these-men by the millions-have deepened and defined our very understanding of what is true and just in the wide world from which they came. We know-as our forefathers knew-the firm ground on which our beliefs must stand. Freedom is rooted in the certainty that the brotherhood of all men springs from the Fatherhood of God. And thus, even as each man is his brother's keeper, no man is another's master. View quote
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The chief of staff says I'm the guy. View quote
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In such a world-at such a time---"a decent respect for the opinion of mankind"-in the words of our Declaration of Independence-requires that we state plainly the purposes we seek, the principles we hold. View quote
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