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" 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. "

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" There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Rights

Successful

Involved

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

" Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Title

Politics

" Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. "

" I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. "

" Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. "

" 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. "

" Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. "

" Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "

" The supreme quality for leadership 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. "

" How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trying

Defend

" I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? "

" If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. "

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

" Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You

Leadership

" No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. "

" 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. "

" We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. "

" Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you? "

" If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. "

" Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. "

" Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. "

" This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. "

" History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. "

" We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ourselves

Vain

" Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. "

" Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. "

" Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. "

" A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. "

" There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. "