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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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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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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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
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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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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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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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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
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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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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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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
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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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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 do have one instruction for you, General. Do something about that damned football team.
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
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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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Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.