Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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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 most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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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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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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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
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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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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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If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
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In such a world-at such a time--'a decent respect for the opinion of mankind'-in the words of our Declaration of Independence-requires that we state plainly the purposes we seek, the principles we hold.
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Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
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The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.
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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?