History 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. 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. EISENHOWERThere’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThough force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEROnly Americans can hurt America.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERLeadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI 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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEREvery 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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHumility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNeither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWorry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERShot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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. EISENHOWERThe world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER