Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
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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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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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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
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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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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 government in Washington belongs to you.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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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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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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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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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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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.
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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.