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Dwight D. Eisenhower [1890-1969] American

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President, 34th U.S. President

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.

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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.	Leadership, Success	101
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.	Fear, Respect, Trust	102
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.	Art, Motivational	103
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.	Peace	104
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.	Society	105
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.	War	106
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.		107
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.	Leadership	108
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.	War	109
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.	Peace, War	110
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.		111
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.	Government, Peace	112
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.		113
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.		114
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.		115
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.		116
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.	History	117
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.	Art, Leadership	118
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.	Pet	119
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.		120
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?	Good	121
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.		122
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.		123
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.		124
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.		125
'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.		126
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.	Faith, Freedom, Intelligence	201
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.		202
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.	Strength	203
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.		204
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.	Strength	205
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.	Best	206
Pessimism never won any battle.		207
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.	Wisdom	208
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.	Business, Chance, Politics, Work	209
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.	Future, History	210
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.	Death	211
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.	Men, Peace	212
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?		213
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.	Freedom, Medical	214
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.		215
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.		216
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.		217
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.		218
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.		219
The sergeant is the Army.		220
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.		221
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.	Freedom, History	222
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.		223
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.	History	224
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.		225
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.	Intelligence	226
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.	Hope	301
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.		302
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!	Chance, History	303
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.	Faith, Freedom	304
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.		305
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.	Freedom, Peace	306
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.		307
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.	Government, Power	308
War settles nothing.	War	309
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.		310
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.	Intelligence, War	311
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.		312
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.		313
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.	Strength	314
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.		315
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.		316
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.	Experience, War	317
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.		318
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.		319
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.		320
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.		321
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.		322
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.	Hope	323
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?	War	324
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.		325
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.		326
Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.		401
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.	Age, Fear, Sad	402
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.		403
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.	Peace	404
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.		405
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.		406
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.		407
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.		408
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.		409
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.		410
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.		411
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.		412
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?		413
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.	Politics	414
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?		415
Only Americans can hurt America.		416
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.	Politics	417
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.		418
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.	Politics	419
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.		420
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.		421
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.	History	422
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.		423
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.		424

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