Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

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.

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

There are no victories at discount prices.

The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it

'peace and friendship, in freedom.'

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

I come from the very heart of America.

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

I'm for each and against none.

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.

One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

Public opinion wins wars.

The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.

No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.