Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

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

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Only Americans can hurt America.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

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

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

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.

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

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

Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?