"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
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― Dwight D. Eisenhower
More From Dwight D. Eisenhower
- "The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
- "Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
- "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
More In History
- "It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."― Henry James
- "The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective."― Rand Paul
- "I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."― Wendell Berry