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Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower, born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, emerged as a pivotal figure in 20th-century history. A five-star general in the U.S. Army during World War II, he orchestrated the Allied invasion of Normandy, cementing his reputation as a master strategist. Subsequently, he served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961, championing policies of peace and prosperity during the Cold War era. Eisenhower's legacy endures, marked by his commitment to international cooperation and civil rights.
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"
Dwight D. Eisenhower"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
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"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
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"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."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
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"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
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."
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."
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"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
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"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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."
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
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"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
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."
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