Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

I like to believe that the people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. I think people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

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.

The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Only Americans can hurt America.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.

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.

United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.