Dwight D. Eisenhower
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.Collection: Truth
The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .Collection: Running
Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.Collection: Responsibility
We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.Collection: Men
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.Collection: Peace
Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.Collection: Useless
Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.Collection: Country
Public opinion wins wars.Collection: War
The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.Collection: Country
Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.Collection: Age
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.Collection: Country
How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.Collection: Attitude
Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.Collection: Optimistic
As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.Collection: Dog
As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.Collection: Achievement
Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.Collection: Spring
...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.Collection: Powerful
No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.Collection: Agreement
A world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.Collection: World
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.Collection: Men
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.Collection: War
And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.Collection: Sports
Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.Collection: Peace
... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.Collection: Strong
Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.Collection: Understanding
Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.Collection: Peace
Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important than their differences.... The common responsibility of all Americans is to become effective, helpful participants in a way of life that blends and harmonizes the fiercely competitive demands of the individual and society.Collection: Country
I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.Collection: Inspirational
If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.Collection: Men
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.Collection: War
I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.Collection: Patriotic
May we grow in strength — without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. And so shall America — in the sight of all men of good will — prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass.Collection: Justice
Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.Collection: Done
A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.Collection: Race
I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.Collection: Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Freedom 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.Collection: Freedom
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.Collection: Children
Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.Collection: Expression
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.Collection: War
I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.Collection: Strong
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.Collection: Country
And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.Collection: Heart
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destructionCollection: Risk
Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.Collection: Sweet
It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.Collection: Years
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.Collection: Ghetto
Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.Collection: Easter
But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.Collection: War
Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.Collection: Religious