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"Pessimism never won any battle."
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"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
"I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind."
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
Explore more quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."
"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
"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."
"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."
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
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