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Dwight David Eisenhower

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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of cons...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the m...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, wheth...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his follo...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and wom...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn f...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futil...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a t...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possi...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almos...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can fin...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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 f...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER