Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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 believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.
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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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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
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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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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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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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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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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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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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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 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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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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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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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.