Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.
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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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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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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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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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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.
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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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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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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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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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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.