Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.

"To the USSR on Stalin's death: "Regardless of the identity of government personalities, the prayer of us Americans continues to be that the Almighty will watch over the people of that vast country and bring them in His wisdom opportunity to live their lives in a world where all men, and women, and children, dwell in peace and comradeship.

History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something
through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and
more and more.

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.

This world in arms is not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.

It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. These plain and cruel truths define the peril and point the hope that come with this spring of 1953.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral. We must not be parsimonious, as long as we are not shooting, we are not spending one tenth as much.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

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.

One day the people of the world will want peace
so much that the governments will have to get out
of their way and give it to them.

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.