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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes


May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

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.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

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.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

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.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.