Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
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"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!"
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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."
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
"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 spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"War settles nothing."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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?"
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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