Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
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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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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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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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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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We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.
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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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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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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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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'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
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The free individual has been justified as his own master; the state as his servant.
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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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If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
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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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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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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
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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.
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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.