Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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.
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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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I'm going to command the whole shebang.
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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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The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple. ... They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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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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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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War settles nothing.
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There is one thing about being President - nobody can tell you when to sit down.
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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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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
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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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I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
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No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. … No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.
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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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The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
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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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Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.