Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
¶ (1963)
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President Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
¶ (Attributed)
It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.
¶ (Attributed)
The middle of the road is all the usable surface. The extreme, right and left, are in the gutters.
¶ (Attributed)
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
¶ (Attributed)
The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
¶ (Attributed)
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
¶ (Attributed)
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.
¶ Parade (1962)
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
¶ Time (25 Oct. 1963)
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men
¶ Campaign speech, Los Angeles (19 Oct. 1956)
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
¶ First Inaugural Address (20 Jan. 1953)
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
¶ First Inaugural Address (20 Jan. 1953)
But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedom’s defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.
¶ Letter to Dr. Robert B. Downs, pres. of the American Library Association (24 Jun 1953)
You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.
¶ News conference (20 Jan. 1957)
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
¶ News conference, Washington (6-Feb-1957)
The world moves and ideas that were good once are not always good.
¶ Press Conference. Washington. D.C. (31 Aug. 1955)
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.
¶ Speech to Luncheon Clubs, Galveston, Texas (8 Dec 1949)
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.
¶ Speech to Luncheon Clubs, Galveston, Texas (8 Dec 1949)
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
¶ Speech, Dartmouth College (14 Jun. 1953)
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I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of 'emergency' is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.
¶ Speech, National Defense Executive Reserve Conference, Washington, DC (14 Nov. 1957)
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
¶ “The Chance for Peace,” address to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington (16 April 1953)
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