Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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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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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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Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.
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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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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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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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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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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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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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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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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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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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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You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
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Of these greater things I speak to you tonight. It seems to me right to do so here, in Philadelphia, where our forefathers defined the principles by which our nation was born and has ever lived.