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34th U S President Inspirational Quotes (279)

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From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
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To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
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The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Plans are nothing planning is everything.
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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
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Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.
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No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
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My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all whether I am not strictly a chopper.
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Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.
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I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.
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We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.
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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.
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
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Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2--ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.
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One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.
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Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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