Tag: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Dwight D. Eisenhower