Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

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)

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

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

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.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

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.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.

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

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

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.

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.

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

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

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.

[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.

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

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