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

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was renowned as a World War II general who commanded Allied forces in Operation Torch and...

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

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half have never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.

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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

—Margaret Halsey

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

—George W. Bush

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You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system.

—Mary Heaton Vorse

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The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

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