Dwight D. Eisenhower
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
Pessimism never won any battle.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
The sergeant is the Army.
Only Americans can hurt America.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.