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“The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“There is no victory at bargain basement prices.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“Pessimism never won any battle.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“The sergeant is the Army.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”
Dwight Eisenhower
“We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
Dwight Eisenhower
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“War settles nothing.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“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 Eisenhower
“I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.”
Dwight Eisenhower