Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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 most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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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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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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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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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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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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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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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
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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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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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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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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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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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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?
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
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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.