Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes





America

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


Bill of Rights

"So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights,
we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Dwight.Eisenhower.Quote.9B81


Book Burning

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... 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower


Burden

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden 
as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:Jan 20, 1953

Don't ever become a general. If you become a general, you just 
plain have too much to worry about.
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:The Toastmaster's treasure Chest




Constitutional Rights

"Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional 
rights, we are weakening our own claim to them."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General
Source: Reader's Digest, December 1963
http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Dwight.Eisenhower.Quote.3FC6


Dissent

"Here in America we are descended in spirit
from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women
who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Source: Speech, Columbia University, 1954


Divine Rights

"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."
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President, WWII General
Source:http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Dwight.Eisenhower.Quote.70A7


Dog Fight

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's 
the size of the fight in the dog. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958 


Farming

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're 
a thousand miles from the corn field. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower, September 11, 1956 


First Things

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, 
the blessings of Almighty God. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower


Force

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 


Habeas Corpus

"Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of 
this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can 
walk upright and meet his friend--or his enemy; and he does not fear that 
because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly 
thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We 
have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General
Source: : Remarks Upon Receiving the America's Democratic Legacy Award at 
a B'nai B'rith Dinner in Honor of the 40th Anniversary of the Anti-Defamation League





Humor

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, 
of getting things done. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower




Intellectual

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more 
than he knows. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower


Now

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 


One Of These Days

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote 
peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so 
much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and 
let them have it. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower


Peace

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration 
and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 


Persuade

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have 
persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as 
he is scared, and then he is gone. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 


Preventive War

"All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. ... 
A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if 
one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, 
many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the 
transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? 
That isn't preventive war; that is war. ... I don't believe there is such a thing; and, 
frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about 
such a thing."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General
Source: 11 August 1954 news conference in response to a question from 
Ray L. Scherer, NBC: 'Mr. President, there seem to be increasing suggestions 
that we should embark on a preventive war with the Communist world, some of 
these suggestions by people in high places. I wonder, sir, if you would care to 
address yourself to that proposition.'




Privileges

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953 


Segregation

These are not bad people.  All they are concerned about is to 
see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in 
school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.
President Eisenhower


Sin

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."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General


Television

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to 
sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their 
television screens. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower


Thoughts

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence 
that they ever existed. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953 


Win

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to 
the very last minute - a chance to lose it. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, 
a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend 
to that one objective. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957 

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