Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country
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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 ... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so m... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last on... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good fo... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for Ame... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process w... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, ... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvatio... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care w... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate l... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get o... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. ... 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 o... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experien... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to l... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned an... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, wheth... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her cit... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The sergeant is the Army. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER