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Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Age: 78 †
Born: 1890
Born: October 14
Died: 1969
Died: March 28
34Th U.S. President
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Denison
Texas
Dwight David 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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I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.
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If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Compromise is like the middle of the road always safer to walk on than the edges.
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
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Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
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[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.
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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.
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You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.
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The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.
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Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
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I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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