A Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Chains Choice Final Heavy Pack Prisoner Soldier

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American - President
October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.

David O. McKay

Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice.' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.

John Pilger

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Henri Matisse

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

Edsger Dijkstra

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

Plato

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

Warren Buffett

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

Alexander Pushkin

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.

Rumi

War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.

Erwin Rommel

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Thomas Jefferson

Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

Daniel Quinn

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

Margaret J. Wheatley

In general, I pack really simply. Every shirt that I pack is going to work with every pant that I pack and every sweater that I pack. So, I can mix and match easily.