Quotes By Dwight D. Eisenhower

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Pessimism never won any battle.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

War settles nothing.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.