Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

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

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

God, I hate the Germans.

The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

The true slogan of a true democracy is not 'Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.