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The sergeant is the Army.

The sergeant is the Army.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Army, Sergeants

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 D. Eisenhower
Inspirational, Business, Military

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom, Military, 4th Of July

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Heart, Rights, Government

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Risk, May, Arms
Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Character, Hands

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ghetto, Sacrifice, Makeup

Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Easter, Strong, War
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.162, Best Books on

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Successful, Rights
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.276, Best Books on

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Religious, Government, Care

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sweet, Praise, Perfume

It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Years, Presidential, Stronger
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.769, Best Books on

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
Motivational, Positive, Strength
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.5, Best Books on

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspirational, Men, History
Address at the Hunt Armory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 09, 1956.

Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Blessing, Land, Water

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
Important, Target, Weapons
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.329, Best Books on

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Force, Appeals

There is very little that our government or any government can do to plant the seeds of international understanding in the hearts and minds of people around the world. If people by the millions can reach out their hands in friendship and communicate directly warmth, personal interest and respect, it will be a real beginning in the struggle for a peaceful world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Real, Struggle, Heart

The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Government, People

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspirational, Leadership, Football

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Honest, Operations, Method

I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Victory, Together, Achieve
Radio address on "D-Day", June, 1944.

You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hurt, Russia, History

The president cannot escape from his office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Office, President

I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, War, Character