Dwight D. Eisenhower
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.Collection: Prayer
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.Collection: Wisdom
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.Collection: Heart
I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.Collection: Desire
The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation, man to man, is an essential part of every religious and social order. The health of our society depends upon a deep and abiding respect for the basic commandments of the God of Israel.Collection: Religious
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.Collection: Spiritual
We will accept nothing less than full Victory!Collection: Victory
Plans are useless, but planning is essential.Collection: Preparation
Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.Collection: Dark
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)Collection: Success
Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those - regardless of their political party - who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.Collection: Dream
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.Collection: Success
Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.Collection: Years
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.Collection: Political
Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.Collection: Teacher
The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.Collection: Home
Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the most powerful foreign threat. The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.Collection: Powerful
This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.Collection: Responsibility
To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things....It is American belief in decency and justice and progress and the value of individual liberty because of the rights conferred on each of us by our Creator that willcarry us through.... There must be something in the heart as well as the head.Collection: Spiritual
In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they will still know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown.Collection: Peace
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.Collection: Black And White
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.Collection: Peace
Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.Collection: Government
Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.Collection: Decision
If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.Collection: Integrity
Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.Collection: Mistake
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.Collection: Islamic
To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.Collection: Freedom
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.Collection: Trying
But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. 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. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.Collection: Freedom
Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.Collection: Inspirational
If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.Collection: Father
Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.Collection: Progress
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.Collection: Hunting
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.Collection: Teamwork
Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.Collection: Important
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.Collection: Government
Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.Collection: Moving
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.Collection: Freedom
The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.Collection: Success
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope.Collection: Spiritual
The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.Collection: Men
The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.Collection: People
Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.Collection: Hard Work
Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.Collection: Powerful
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.Collection: Badass
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.Collection: Hands
In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.Collection: Country
In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.Collection: Spiritual