Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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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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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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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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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'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
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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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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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We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.
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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
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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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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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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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If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
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The free individual has been justified as his own master; the state as his servant.
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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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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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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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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 are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.
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I do have one instruction for you, General. Do something about that damned football team.