Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chains
Prisoner
Heavy
Related Quotes:
" A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
People
Society
Values
" There is no victory at bargain basement prices. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bargain
Basement
Prices
" 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. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Good
Free
Heritage
" Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Push
Will
Wish
" 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. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Integrity
Success
Football
" I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Need
Obey
Get
" Plans are nothing; planning is everything. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Plans
Everything
Nothing
" Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Were
Simple
Pleasures
" 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
Human
Wisdom
Process
" The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hear
Never
Best
" Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace
Two
Sides
" The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
World
Prove
Worthy
" War settles nothing. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing
War
" Only Americans can hurt America. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
America
Only
Hurt
" You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
People
Head
Leadership
" We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ourselves
Vain
Search
" How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Go
Trying
Defend
" 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
Work
Politics
Chance
" 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
American
Looking
Face
" I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
America
Good
Only
" There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Her
Freedom
Love
" Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
First
World
Heart
" I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Better
Government
Peace
" Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Title
Politics
Oh
" Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Weakness
Strength
Only
" Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Think
Book
You
" Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Problem
Real
Strength
" The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Purpose
Country
Clear
" I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Man
Him
Long
" There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Child
Back
Way