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"Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'."
"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same."
"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."
Explore more quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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."
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history."
"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."
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
"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."
"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
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