Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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.
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This is something, eh, that is the kind of thing that must be gone through with what I believe is best not talked about too much until we know whatever answers there will be.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
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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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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Our time of national political debate is almost ended. The clamor of these days will soon subside. And your day of thoughtful decision swiftly nears.
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The right of no nation depends upon the date of its birth or the size of its power. As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so-we believe-there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.
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It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.
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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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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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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
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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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One hundred eighty years later, we know that the eyes of the world are fixed upon us. And we must ask ourselves: what kind of an example of freedom do we give to our age? What are the true marks of our America-and what do they mean to the world?