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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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I'm going to command the whole shebang.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
We are-proudly-a people with no sense of class or caste. We judge no man by his name or inheritance, but by what he does-and for what he stands.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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?
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower