The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThrough knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWorry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNo man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAll generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERShot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI 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. EISENHOWERHistory teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERDon’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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIn 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. EISENHOWERWe seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERFreedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER