Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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.
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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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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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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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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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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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
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If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
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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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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
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We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.
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War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.
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I believe as long as we allow conditions to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-class citizens.
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I do have one instruction for you, General. Do something about that damned football team.
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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
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The free individual has been justified as his own master; the state as his servant.