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
- You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
- 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?
- If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
- Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
- 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.
- There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
- I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Best Quotes
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
- I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.
- If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
- There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
- Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
- Abused patience turns to fury.
- God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.