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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.

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
Military, Iron, Trouble
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.7, Best Books on

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Battle, Plans, According To Plan

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Time, Age, Saving

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hands, Use, World

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Government, Goes On, Helping

You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Heart, Europe, Germany

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Air, American Veterans

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sports, Baseball, Running

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Rights, Sea
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.501, Best Books on

If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Air, Supremacy

There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
President, One Thing
1964 Speech.

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Giving, Signals

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Disappointment, Party, Nuclear

I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Believe, Loss
The New York Times, p. 15, March 16, 1968.

One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Powerful, Men, Order

Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jobs, Discovery, Giving

Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men, History, Mad

The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Friendship, Dog, War

How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Night, Men, Light
First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Men, Museums

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Defense, Way
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.358, Best Books on

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Keys, Support, Progress

There are no victories at discount prices.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Victory, Discounts

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Enemy, Battle, Surprise

United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Determination, War, Fighting
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1948). “Crusade in Europe”