Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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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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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
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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 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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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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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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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 think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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We are-proudly-a people with no sense of class or caste. We judge no man by his name or inheritance, but by what he does-and for what he stands.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.
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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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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.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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?