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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. On Dwight D. Eisenhower
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OSCAR LEVANT Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years a...
CLAUDIA GRAY JFK inherited three recessions from the Dwight D. Eisenhower years. And he wound up slashing tax rat...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about...
DONNA BRAZILE I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balanc...
ROBERT DOLD Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
OSCAR LEVANT Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it....
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resid...
DAN JENKINS In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and the...
MITCH MCCONNELL Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
OSCAR LEVANT Dwight Eisenhower warned American citizens at the end of his presidency about the implications of th...
JOHN MCAFEE When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked th...
CHARLIE SIFFORD I am quite convinced that if (U.S. President Dwight) Eisenhower were to come back today he would hav...
ANATOL LIEVEN Golf has been used by presidents and presidential candidates for years. For example, President Eisen...
HARRY HURT No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed ag...
H.L. MENCKEN Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' pre...
NIGEL HAMILTON This is probably the most threatened the Arctic refuge has been since 1960, when it was established ...
BILL MEADOWS Some of you may know that this I-80 segment as you know it is over 40 years old.
DAVE LOPEZ It was a sound; I'm 70-years old and I hope I never hear that sound again.
DOLORES CLEMENS At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting...
JANE LEAVY No one is ever old enough to know better
HOLBROOK JACKSON Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war...
ROBERT DALLEK The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a read...
JEFFREY TAMBOR She's broken 70 bones and she's only 12 years old.
KATHERINE SIMMONS I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters ...
JERRY REED My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people ...
AMIRI BARAKA We just did what no one else at Eisenhower had been able to do. But we aren't through yet. We've got...
LESTER HART Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this worl...
H.L. MENCKEN In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than f...
JACOB LEW You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.
GRAHAM KENNEDY People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and y...
FRAN DRESCHER I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not...
MARY J. BLIGE In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
JOHN THORN It doesn't matter whether you are 7 or 70 years old; I've seen her have this affect on individuals.
BARRY RAY To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES After 20 years of evaluations, none of which put his IQ over 70 — and some that put his IQ in the ...
MICHAEL CHARLTON Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
VICTORIA MORAN One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. T...
TED NUGENT I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get i...
AMIRI BARAKA Just looking at the front-office applications market, there over 70 vendors. The market doesn't need...
BRENT HILL I've been using makeup since I was ten years old. I've learned a lot of do's and don'...
BECKY G Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a...
MORDECAI BROWN If I ever uttered one word that I said in 'Kick-Ass', I would be grounded for years! I'd...
CHLOE GRACE MORETZ Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It take...
NEWT GINGRICH I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
MARTHA GELLHORN George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford...
JEFF GREENFIELD I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be th...
STIPE MIOCIC Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
MARIO PUZO I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed.
JOHNNY WEIR They can put me in jail, I'm 70 years old, and I want to come home. If I am going to die, I want to ...
GLORIA IRVING Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days ...
ARTUR DAVIS Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired ...
EPICURUS The inaugural parade is like an extension of the president's personality, ... Dwight Eisenhower, for...
CHARLIE BROTMAN Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving aga...
WARREN CUCCURULLO If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you...
RICK MERCER Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair wa...
M. EMMET WALSH Live fast and die middle-aged. Dying young is pointless and dying old means years in an old folks ho...
JOSEPH WILLIAMS At one point, I thought that maybe humor was the best way to deal with it. I figured maybe I should ...
MARC LEVIN No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN No man is ever old enough to know better.
HOLBROOK JACKSON No man is ever old enough to know better.
HOLBROOK JACKSON I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
MARY KARR I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Ro...
JEFF GREENFIELD No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patri...
, TO ROBERT SHERMAN OF AMERICAN ATHEIST PRESS, AT THE CHICAGO AIRPORT WHILE ANNOUNCING FEDERAL DISASTER RELIEF FOR ILLINOIS Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-...
IRIS APFEL You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't...
DWYANE WADE No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed age...
H. L. MENCKEN No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agen...
H.L. MENCKEN I was drunk, Anthony was drunk. No one will ever know what happened in that pool.
MAKOSI MUSAMBASI I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how th...
TOM HAYDEN When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pict...
JOHN VARVATOS Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was som...
TED CRUZ Dwight was everything the Bear ever said he would be.
DON SHULA Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and the...
BYRON NELSON No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as pa...
GEORGE BUSH I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He want...
RAINN WILSON It was the most important Vivaldi discovery of the last 70 years. Every year, new manuscripts are fo...
FEDERICO MARIA SARDELLI I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
HANS-GEORG GADAMER For years, I have been criticized for supporting the military because I have no military experience....
MIKE GALLAGHER See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that ...
CASEY STENGEL I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a ge...
PETE ROSE What I heard when we started this war was we'd be out in 10 years, ... That's the timetable I think ...
GENE TAYLOR I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general sho...
GERALD WALPIN Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.
BILLY GRAHAM I know the state has bought a lot of land over the years, and I feel they should open some of that u...
CHARLES GRAY Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods, ever continued un...
PLATO The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. You...
DORIS LESSING I'm thinking about it, ... You know I'm 75 years old, I'm kinda old to start building, start over ag...
LEONARD GREEN I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this ide...
WHOOPI GOLDBERG On a good day, I'm a first class prick, but even I know that being treated like you're disposable is...
MELYSSA WINCHESTER The friendships developed over the years should help. Coaches out there still know who I am.
HARRY JENKINS It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happene...
PENELOPE SPHEERIS It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is ...
WOODY ALLEN I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous ...
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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...
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