Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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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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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
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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.
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.
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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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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
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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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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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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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Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
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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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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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The United States would seek more than the mere reduction or elimination of atomic materials for military purposes. It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of the soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.
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We –finally-look upon change, the every-unfolding future, with confidence rather than doubt, hope rather than fear. We, as a people, were born of revolution. And we have lived by change-always a frontier people, exploring-if not new wilderness-then new science and new knowledge.
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.