Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

• How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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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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• Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Topics in Politics

• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Topics in Leadership

• Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Topics in Age

• You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Authority

• Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow

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Dwight D. Eisenhower (116)

Birth:	14th October, 1890
Death:	28th March, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

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