Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

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.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

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?

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

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

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,