Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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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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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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.
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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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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.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.