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Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Opportunity, Priceless, Neglect
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.401, Best Books on

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Love, Inspirational, Life

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Country, Essence, Coercion
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Columbia University Inaugural Addres, October 12, 1948.

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strong, Military, Believe

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspiring, Leadership, Fear

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Dark, Evil
1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, People, Stupidity
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.315, Best Books on

Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Heart, Gun

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Believe, Common Sense, Political

Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thinking, Enemy, Scared

Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Hatred, Suggestions

This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Morning, Clever, Men
Letter to Vernon Prichard on August 27, 1942. "The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower". Book edited by Alfred Dupont Chandler, p. 505, 1970.

There is no such thing as human superiority.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humans, Superiority

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patriotic, Thinking, America

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Done, Want, Way

The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Unity, Defense
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.63, Best Books on

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patriotic, Thinking, Alaska

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men, Order, Leader

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Success, Business, Military
Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men, Hands, Order
"Commemorating The 70th Anniversary Of Liberation", www.ushmm.org.

In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Spiritual, Unique, Eternal

When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Race, Understanding

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess. To preserve his freedom of worship, his equality before law, his liberty to speak and act as he sees fit, subject only to provisions that he trespass not upon similar rights of others - a Londoner will fight. So will a citizen of Abilene. When we consider these things, then the valley of the Thames draws closer to the farms of Kansas and the plains of Texas.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Real, Mean, Fighting
"At ease: stories I tell to friends" by Dwight David Eisenhower, (p. 389), 1967.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tired, Harvard, Explanation

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strength, Hands, Aggressors
Speech at an English Speaking Union Dinner, July 03, 1951.