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Portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

(1890–1969) Army Officer

515 quotes in 2138 categories

Soldiers march toward a Great Crusade, ready for a new challenge as nations aim for peace beyond the battlefield. Eisenhower reminds us that true strength comes from knowledge, free choice, and even simple things like wheat and cotton. He also warns against hiding faults and urges countries to keep their own governments and economies.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was an army officer, best known for The papers of Dwight David Eisenhower.

Quick Facts About Dwight D. Eisenhower

Born: October 14, 1890
Died: March 28, 1969
Profession: Army Officer
Notable works: The papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

About Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower, also known as Ike, was the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. In his previously military career, he led the Allied Expeditionary Force during the Second World War, launching decisive campaigns in North Africa and Normandy and becoming a General of the Army.

Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

I come from the very heart of America.

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America

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There can be no peace without law.

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Humanity

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The sergeant is the Army.

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Army

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Public opinion wins wars.

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Opinion

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Unless we progress, we regress.

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Funny

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Beware the military-industrial complex.

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I'm for each and against none.

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Competition

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War settles nothing.

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Nothing

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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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Aristocratic

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The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

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People

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America is best described by one word, freedom.

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America

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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

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Hills

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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

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Chains

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The president cannot escape from his office.

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Escape

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Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

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

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Office

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In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

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War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.

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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who…

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Education

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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have…

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Hate

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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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Citizenship

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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

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America

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The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

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D day

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We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one…

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Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite…

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Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace…

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A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest…

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Armament

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For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him…

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In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and…

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The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home… I have…

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Animal

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Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner…

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Age

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“To the USSR on Stalin's death: "Regardless of the identity of government personalities, the prayer of us Americans continues to be that…

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Church and state

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The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of…

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Arrogant

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Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is…

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. . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about…

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Art

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With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of…

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It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and…

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American people

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How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance…

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Appraise

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We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every…

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American family

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Dwight D. Eisenhower by topic

War (99) Peace (87) Men (67) World (57) People (49) Politics (47) Freedom (46) Life (37) Inspirational (32) Government (31) Nations (30) Military (29) America (28) Time (25)