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I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.
— Bernie Sanders
Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You do not lead by hitting people over the head
that's assault, not leadership. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
that's assault, not leadership. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.
— Milton S. Eisenhower
I had a career. His name was Ike.
— Mamie Eisenhower
Only after Eden agreed to leave Egypt unconditionally did Eisenhower arrange a billion-dollar rescue package from the IMF and the Export-Import Bank.
— Niall Ferguson
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
United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
— Stephen Ambrose
Annoyance, Eisenhower knew that the prolonged
— Jeff Shaara
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
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
— Alistair Cooke
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
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's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
— 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
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
— 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
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.
— Jeff Sessions
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.
— Jean Edward Smith
Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.
— Joel Garreau
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
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement
— Phil Harding
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.
— Milton S. Eisenhower
My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's one of the finest highway networks in the world - and nobody seems to care that the basic idea was copied from the Nazis.6 EISENHOWER,
— T.R. Reid
I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
— Lincoln Chafee
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
God, I hate the Germans ...
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
— 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
Today, no one questions-whether women are equal to men in ability and itelligence.
— Julie Nixon 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
Winning isn't everything," Eisenhower said faintly. "Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty ... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.
— Jean Edward Smith
Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
— 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
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
— 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 unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!
— Ken Kesey
I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.
— Alex Karras
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
If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
— 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
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world must know what happened, and never forget.
— 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
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was a lieutenant in World War II.
— John 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
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.
— Thomas Piketty
Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it.
— Mamie Eisenhower
Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.
— Milton S. 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
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
The president cannot escape from his office.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you can't solve a problem, enlarge it.
— 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
Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.
— John 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