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We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mistake, Heart, Causes

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strength, Heart, Direct
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.34, Best Books on

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hands, Organization, Genius
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Baseball, Real, Player
"Baseball's Greatest Quotes". Book by Paul Dickson, 1991.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ambition, Army, Duty

My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sports, Prayer, Swings
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1989). “The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952”

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Race, Ideas, People

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
People, Counting

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Knowledge, Gun, Brain

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Education, Time, Teaching

As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Spiritual, Loss, Grandchildren
Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wisdom, Peace, Freedom
Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Failing, Efficiency, Disorganization
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Girl, Sweet, Stupid

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Successful, Morale
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1948). “Crusade in Europe”

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Light, Flames, Land
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.65, Best Books on

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Fire, Essence

No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Troops, World

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Finals, Human Life, Planets
First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Integrity, Character, Way
"Nineteen Stars : a Study in Military Character and Leadership" by Edgar F. Puryear Jr., (p. 289), 1971.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Invention

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Prayer, Military, Eye
1944 Despatch to US forces on D-Day, 6 Jun

War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Suicide, War, Race
Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.236, Best Books on

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rights, Government, Long

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Victory, D Day, World War 2
Order of the Day, delivered 6 June 1944