“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“War settles nothing.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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?”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”
– 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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower