Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.
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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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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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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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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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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 deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
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Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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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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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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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
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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.