Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

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.

We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

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

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.

Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.

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.

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 deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?

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.

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

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

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.