Eisenhower Euphemism Quotes

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower said, "Take as much time as you can to make a decision, but when you are out of time, decide and move forward. ~ Don H. Ross

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most. ~ Ethel Merman

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. ~ Andrea Dworkin

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general ... They win battles, and they make me lucky. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it? ~ Andrei Cherny

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying. ~ Bobbie Gentry

Nobody can. I'm writing a new song. It's called 'My pancakes bring all the boys to the yard'. Took my hand and I pulled him up. "So pancakes are a euphemism for. .." He paused and ran his eyes slowly over my body. Prickles tugged at my insides. "Cuddles and hugs?" I barked a laugh. "Yep. I give the best cuddles and hugs in all of London. ~ L. H. Cosway

With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say. ~ David Fricke

Far from being freaks, the Hell's Angels are a logical product of the culture that now claims to be shocked at their existence. The generation represented by the editors of Time has lived so long in a world full of Celluloid outlaws hustling toothpaste and hair oil that it is no longer capable of confronting the real thing. For twenty years they have sat with their children and watched yesterday's outlaws raise hell with yesterday's world ... and now they are bringing up children who think Jesse James is a television character. This is the generation that went to war for Mom, God and Apple Butter, the American Way of Life. When they came back, they crowned Eisenhower and then retired to the giddy comfort of their TV parlors, to cultivate the subtleties of American history as seen by Hollywood. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of. ~ Louis R. Chenevert

I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under Eisenhower. Do people think America wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under Eisenhower in the '50s? Nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "We're taxing ourselves into oblivion." Yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. It's been purchased. ~ David Simon

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there. ~ John Eisenhower

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs. ~ Dylan Thomas

It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain. ~ John Eisenhower

He who was given the freedom to ask whatever should give the freedom to be answered however. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are no victories at discount prices. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower ~ Oscar Levant

Then, as on the night before, we lay down together and I proved how great our friendship had become. ~ Henry M. Christman

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you can't solve a problem, enlarge it. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Apparently my subconscious freaked out when I saw blood on the vet's coat and then I abruptly passed out right on my cat. (That's not a euphemism.) ~ Jenny Lawson

I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him. ~ Pete Rose

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History. ~ Julie Nixon Eisenhower

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality. ~ Paul Johnson

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal. ~ Nigel Rees

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower