QUOTES by 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."
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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."
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"I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."
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"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
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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."
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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"
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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."
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"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."
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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."
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"The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good."
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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."
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"When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept."
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"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
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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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"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
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"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."
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"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign."
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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know."
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"Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat."
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"There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders."
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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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"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
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"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."
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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."
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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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"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure."
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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"
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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."
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"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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"Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy."
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"In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains."
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"The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character."
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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"
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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."
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"Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not."
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