Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.
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I'm going to command the whole shebang.
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Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
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War settles nothing.
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I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces.
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The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
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I believe that the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion.
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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There is one thing about being President - nobody can tell you when to sit down.
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In June of 1776, Richard Henry Lee, rising before the Continental Congress to move his resolution for American independence, declared: 'The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us; she demands of us a living example of freedom.'
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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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I thought so at first, but there is reason to believe that he is still alive. But that in itself does not constitute a problem.
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I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
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Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.
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You just can't have this kind of war. There aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.