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

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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
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
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