Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
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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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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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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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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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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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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 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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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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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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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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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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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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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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All the historic precedents, the soaring graphs, the staggering statistics-these measure size more than substance. And the largeness and greatness of our nation would be almost a mockery-without a matching greatness of heart and largeness of vision as we look out upon the world.