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No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership, President, United States

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership, Jobs, War
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.331, Best Books on

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Compromise, Middle, Walks

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Mistake, Troops
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1948). “Crusade in Europe”

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Office, Political, Should

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Time, Fear, Women

It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Government, Political, Citizens
"Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956" by Cole C. Kingseed, (p. 27), 1995.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Men, Problem

Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Successful, Married, Politician

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Honesty, Memories, Integrity

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hard, Statesmanship

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 D. Eisenhower
Years, America, Poverty

In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Veterans Day, Hands, Order

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Justice, Use
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.289, Best Books on

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Faults, D Day, Blame
"The Speech Eisenhower Never Gave On The Normandy Invasion". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 08, 2013.

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
War, Military, Vietnam
News conference, 7 Apr. 1954

So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Night

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Order, Usa
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.397, Best Books on

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Uniforms, Accepting

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Country, Safety, Purpose
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.327, Best Books on

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Children, Desire
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.396, Best Books on

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Political, Politics, Serious

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Mean
Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.1066, Best Books on

I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, World, Earth
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.351, Best Books on

As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Ideas, Self