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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) was the 34th President of the United States and a five-star general who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II. His leadership during the D-Day invasion and his presidency — marked by economic prosperity and Cold War strategy — defined the mid-20th century.

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“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

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All Quotes by 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

Future

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

War

“The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

“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

Freedom

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom

“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

Strength

“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

“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

Men

“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics

“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

Age

“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

Leadership

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

“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

Fear

“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

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“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Art

“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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