Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
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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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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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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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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
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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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The United States would seek more than the mere reduction or elimination of atomic materials for military purposes. It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of the soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.
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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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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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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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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 believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.
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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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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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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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 must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
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The government in Washington belongs to you.
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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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To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.