Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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 most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.
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Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative.
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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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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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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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?
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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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The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.
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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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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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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.