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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

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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