Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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 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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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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The government in Washington belongs to you.
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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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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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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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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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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
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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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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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I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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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.
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
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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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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 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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We were depending on considerable assistance from the insurrectionists in France. Throughout France the Free French had been of inestimable value in the campaign. ... Without their great assistance the liberation of France and the defeat of the enemy in Western Europe would have consumed a much longer time and meant greater losses to ourselves.