Inspiring Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower - Page 2

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"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president"

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"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"

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

"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"

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

"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"

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

"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?"

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

"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"

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

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

"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"

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