Quotes: eisenhower
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower: American president
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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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''I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower.'' ''Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!''
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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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.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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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.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]
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I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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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.
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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
