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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. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You do not lead by hitting people over the head
that's assault, not leadership. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only Americans can hurt America. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no victory at bargain basement prices. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan] — Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

In preparing for battle, I have found that planning is essential, but plans are useless. - Dwight D. Eisenhower — Neil Shubin

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it's the size of the fight in the dog. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!' — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love." — Dwight D. Eisenhower

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program. — Joel Garreau

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction — Dwight D. Eisenhower

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower — Oscar Levant

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners! — Dwight D. Eisenhower

One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world must know what happened, and never forget. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you can't solve a problem, enlarge it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk? — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pessimism never won any battle. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general ... They win battles, and they make me lucky. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

One day the people of the world will want peace
so much that the governments will have to get out
of their way and give it to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

God, I hate the Germans ... — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The president cannot escape from his office. — Dwight D. Eisenhower