Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Related Quotes:

" The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Plans are nothing; planning is everything. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" 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

" In the councils of government, 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. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you? "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Only Americans can hurt America. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" 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. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" 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. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower