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“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“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. ”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“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 David Eisenhower

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Pessimism never won any battle.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Only Americans can hurt America.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower