Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

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

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

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

Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used--but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.

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

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

People of Western Europe: A landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force. This landing is part of the concerted United Nations plan for the liberation of Europe, made in conjunction with our great Russian allies…. I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.

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.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

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.

I shall go to Korea.

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.

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.

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

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.