Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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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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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge 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 one thing about being President - nobody can tell you when to sit down.
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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 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 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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
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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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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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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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War settles nothing.
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It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.
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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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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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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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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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In such a world-at such a time--'a decent respect for the opinion of mankind'-in the words of our Declaration of Independence-requires that we state plainly the purposes we seek, the principles we hold.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.