3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower 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.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower 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.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower 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.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower In most communities it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower 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.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower 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.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower 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.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.
3 December 2020 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 dog.
