Quotes By Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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.

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

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.

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 is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.