Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes And Sayings

Our Forces Saved The Remnants Of The Jewish People Of Europe For A New Life And A New Hope In The Reborn Land Of Israel. Along With All Men Of Good Will, I Salute The Young State And Wish It Well.

I'm Saving That Rocker For The Day When I Feel As Old As I Really Am.

The History Of Free Men Is Never Really Written By Chance But By Choice; Their Choice!

Only Our Individual Faith In Freedom Can Keep Us Free.

We Seek Peace, Knowing That Peace Is The Climate Of Freedom.

The Problem In Defense Is How Far You Can Go Without Destroying From Within What You Are Trying To Defend From Without.

Whatever America Hopes To Bring To Pass In The World Must First Come To Pass In The Heart Of America.

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.

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.

War Settles Nothing.

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.

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.

The Free World Must Not Prove Itself Worthy Of Its Own Past.

Here In America We Are Descended In Blood And In Spirit From Revolutionists And Rebels - Men And Women Who Dare To Dissent From Accepted Doctrine. As Their Heirs, May We Never Confuse Honest Dissent With Disloyal Subversion.

Our Real Problem, Then, Is Not Our Strength Today; It Is Rather The Vital Necessity Of Action Today To Ensure Our Strength Tomorrow.

In The Final Choice A Soldier's Pack Is Not So Heavy As A Prisoner's Chains.

There Is No Glory In Battle Worth The Blood It Costs.

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.

We Are Tired Of Aristocratic Explanations In Harvard Words.

Plans Are Nothing; Planning Is Everything.

There Is No Person In This Room Whose Basic Rights Are Not Involved In Any Successful Defiance To The Carrying Out Of Court Orders.

The World Moves, And Ideas That Were Once Good Are Not Always Good.

Things Are More Like They Are Now Than They Ever Were Before.

In Preparing For Battle I Have Always Found That Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Indispensable.

The Purpose Is Clear. It Is Safety With Solvency. The Country Is Entitled To Both.

In Most Communities It Is Illegal To Cry 'Fire' In A Crowded Assembly. Should It Not Be Considered Serious International Misconduct To Manufacture A General War Scare In An Effort To Achieve Local Political Aims?

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.

It Is Far More Important To Be Able To Hit The Target Than It Is To Haggle Over Who Makes A Weapon Or Who Pulls A Trigger.

You Don't Lead By Hitting People Over The Head - That's Assault, Not Leadership.

Ankles Are Nearly Always Neat And Good-looking, But Knees Are Nearly Always Not.

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.

There Is No Victory At Bargain Basement Prices.

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.

There Are A Number Of Things Wrong With Washington. One Of Them Is That Everyone Is Too Far From Home.

I Can Think Of Nothing More Boring For The American People Than To Have To Sit In Their Living Rooms For A Whole Half Hour Looking At My Face On Their Television Screens.

Humility Must Always Be The Portion Of Any Man Who Receives Acclaim Earned In The Blood Of His Followers And The Sacrifices Of His Friends.

Unlike Presidential Administrations, Problems Rarely Have Terminal Dates.

No One Should Ever Sit In This Office Over 70 Years Old, And That I Know.

I Deplore The Need Or The Use Of Troops Anywhere To Get American Citizens To Obey The Orders Of Constituted Courts.

Our Pleasures Were Simple - They Included Survival.

I Hate War As Only A Soldier Who Has Lived It Can, Only As One Who Has Seen Its Brutality, Its Futility, Its Stupidity.

Well, When You Come Down To It, I Don't See That A Reporter Could Do Much To A President, Do You?

I Have Only One Yardstick By Which I Test Every Major Problem - And That Yardstick Is: Is It Good For America?

Politics Is A Profession; A Serious, Complicated And, In Its True Sense, A Noble One.

Only Americans Can Hurt America.

Disarmament, With Mutual Honor And Confidence, Is A Continuing Imperative.

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.

Oh, That Lovely Title, Ex-president.

The People Of The World Genuinely Want Peace. Some Day The Leaders Of The World Are Going To Have To Give In And Give It To Them.

I Would Rather Try To Persuade A Man To Go Along, Because Once I Have Persuaded Him, He Will Stick. If I Scare Him, He Will Stay Just As Long As He Is Scared, And Then He Is Gone.