Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

American president

Lived from: 1890 - 1969

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 14 october 1890 Died: 28 march 1969

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  • Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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  • Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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  • May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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  • Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
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  • Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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