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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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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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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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
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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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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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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 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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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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These proposals spring, without ulterior motive or political passion, from our calm conviction that the hunger for peace is in the hearts of all people - those of Russia and of China no less than of our own country. They conform to our firm faith that God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
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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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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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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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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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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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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 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 is no victory at bargain basement prices.
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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
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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.