Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.
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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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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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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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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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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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These proposals spring, without ulterior motive or political passion, from our calm conviction that the hunger for peace is in the hearts of all people - those of Russia and of China no less than of our own country. They conform to our firm faith that God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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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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This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.
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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.