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

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

"The sergeant is the Army"

"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"

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

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

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

"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates"

"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"

"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history"

"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth"

"Only Americans can hurt America"

"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president"

"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know"

"The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both"

"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without"

"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"

"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion"

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield"

"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"

"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past"

"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"

"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival"

"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"

"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg"

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it"

"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion"

"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am"

"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"

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency"

"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"

"I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea"

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it"

"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

"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"

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity"

"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"

"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed"

"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"

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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