Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

Take your job seriously, but not yourself

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

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.

The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.

It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

The president cannot escape from his office.

You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.