History Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

22 History quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eisenhower’s reflections on the past carry the weight of a commander and a president. Across twenty‑two concise statements, he balances strategic insight with a steady, forward‑looking calm, shedding light on how history informs policy.

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“The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

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“shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.”

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The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

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But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war…

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Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the…

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“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some…

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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future…

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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear…

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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…

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No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small…

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I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can…

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You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its…

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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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Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness…

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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…

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This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out…

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You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

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You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

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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…

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We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our…

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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

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Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these…

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“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go…

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Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest…

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