"Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents……" — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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338 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience,…
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I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less…
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During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
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