Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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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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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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 world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
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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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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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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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I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.