Dwight D. Eisenhower

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#curtain #hard #iron #iron curtain #reminders

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#found #glory #i #know #later

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#enlarge #problem #solved

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#free #freedom #individual #keep #only

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

#anything #battle #chance #contest #last

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#certain #inhibitions #put #uniform #you

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 people #boring #face #half #half hour

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#cooperate #only #strength #weakness

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

#ensure #necessity #our #problem #rather

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. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#clothed #cold #every #fed #final