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


Dwight David Eisenhower

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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
In London, my associates and I planned two great expeditions--that to invade the Mediterranean and l...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn fiel...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continu...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Pessimism never won any battle.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it....
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 future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most criti...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problem...
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
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of th...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of cons...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the m...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, wheth...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his follo...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and wom...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn f...
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
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a t...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possi...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almos...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can fin...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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 f...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER