Dwight D. Eisenhower
Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.Collection: Sports
Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.Collection: Tools
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.Collection: Government
Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling.Collection: Race
... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2--ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.Collection: Senior
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.Collection: Military
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.Collection: Sacrifice
We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.Collection: War
In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.Collection: Men
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.Collection: Success
I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.Collection: Believe
We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.Collection: War
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.Collection: Men
The world must know what happened, and never forget.Collection: War
If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.Collection: Long
...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.Collection: Dark
I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.Collection: Ambition
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.Collection: Leadership
Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.Collection: Compromise
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.Collection: War
No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.Collection: Office
It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.Collection: Government
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.Collection: War
For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.Collection: Honesty
Like all successful politicians I married above myself.Collection: Successful
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.Collection: Hard
In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.Collection: Veterans Day
In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.Collection: War
Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.Collection: Sports
Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.Collection: Sports
Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.Collection: Sports
But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President anybody that it wants, regardless of the number of terms he has served. That is what I believe. Now, some people have said, "You let him get enough power and this will lead toward a one-party government." That, I don't believe. I have got the utmost faith in the long-term common sense of the American people. Therefore, I don't think there should be any inhibitions other than those that were in the 35-year age limit and so on. I think that was enough, myself.Collection: Believe
I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.Collection: Peace
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.Collection: Democracy
The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.Collection: Peace
For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.Collection: Peace
As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.Collection: Peace
Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.Collection: Home
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.Collection: Children
I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and weak.Collection: War
Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end.Collection: Peace
I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.Collection: Baseball
make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.Collection: Hate
Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.Collection: Government
It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.Collection: Military
There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'Collection: Maturity
A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.Collection: War
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.Collection: Tyrants
Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.Collection: Sacrifice