Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

• Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

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• We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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• Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

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• Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

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• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

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• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

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• There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

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• There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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• There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

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• There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

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• There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

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• There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

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• The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

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• 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.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower (116)

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

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