Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

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

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

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.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.