Quotes By Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

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

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.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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