Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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 pleasures were simple - they included survival.
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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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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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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 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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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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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
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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 history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
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I share the sense of shock and dismay that the entire nation must feel at the despicable act that took the life of the nation's president. On the personal side, Mrs. Eisenhower and I share the grief that Mrs. Kennedy must now feel. We send to her our prayerful thoughts and sympathetic sentiments in this hour.
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To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
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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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I know that the American people share my deep belief that if a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all; and equally, that if hope exists in the mind of one nation, that hope should be shared by all.
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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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.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
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A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.
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The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.