649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower



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    Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

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    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. (31 August 1959)

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    If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

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

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    Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

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    Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.

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