Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Profession : President

Birth : October 14, 1890

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Dwight D. 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 D. Eisenhower

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight D. 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 D. Eisenhower

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Dwight D. Eisenhower