Quotes from Dwight D Eisenhower

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.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54)

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.

The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

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.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.