Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
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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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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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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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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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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.