Dwight D. Eisenhower the President, biography, facts and quotes

"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed"

"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one"

"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"

"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"

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free"

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates"

"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"

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it"

"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were"

"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"

"If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it"

"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership"

"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it"

"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"

"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center"

"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts"

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security"

"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs"

"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"

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all"

"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"

"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"

"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom"

"The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament"

"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends"

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders"

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything"

"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative"

"Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy"

"Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not"

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows"

"An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins"

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both"

"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"

"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex"

"We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words"

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it"

"War settles nothing"

"Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose"

"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace"

"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"

"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign"

Born as	Dwight David Eisenhower
Occup.	President
From	USA
Born	October 14, 1890 Denison, Texas, USA
Died	March 28, 1969 Washington D.C., USA
Cause	Cardiac Arrest
Aged	78 years

Dwight D. Eisenhower Biography

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