Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
- In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- War settles nothing.
- 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.
- The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
- What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
- 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.
- I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Best Quotes
- I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
- Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
- I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
- At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
- Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
- When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
- Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
- Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.