What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWhat is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI 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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIt is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERDon’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. EISENHOWERI made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAll generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThere’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERStatesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER