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I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspirational, Life, Attitude

Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Understanding, Agents, Temples

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Home, School, Cities
Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Trying, Defense

Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Military, Cost

May we grow in strength — without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. And so shall America — in the sight of all men of good will — prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Justice, Earth, May
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957".

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Stupid, Men
Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, www.dwightdeisenhower.com. June 03, 1947.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Military, Patriotic

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tools, Use, Method
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspirational, Success, Dog

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

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

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Funny, Sports, Atheist

Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important than their differences.... The common responsibility of all Americans is to become effective, helpful participants in a way of life that blends and harmonizes the fiercely competitive demands of the individual and society.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Country, Responsibility, Men

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Children, Calamity, Educated
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.575, Best Books on

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Work, Should, Honorable

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Race, Understanding, Honest
Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Childhood, Presidential

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Risk, Emergencies

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Farewell, Responsibility
Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspirational Life, Priorities, Firsts

Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Expression, Firsts, Recognition
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Awful, Surrender
Newsweek, p. 107, November 11, 1963.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Love, America, Energy

If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men, America, Promise
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.18, Best Books on

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Happiness, Laughter, Pain