Dwight D. Eisenhower
Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.Collection: Military
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.Collection: Art
The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which these other forms of protection can be soundly built. Thus, the individual's own work, his planning and his thrift will bring him a higher standard of living upon his retirement, or his family a higher standard of living in the event of his death, than would otherwise be the case. Hence the system both encourages thrift and self-reliance, and helps to prevent destitution in our national life.Collection: Retirement
This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.Collection: Ghetto
Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justiceCollection: Sex
What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.Collection: Life
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.Collection: Hills
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.Collection: Men
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.Collection: Integrity
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.Collection: Gun
If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.Collection: War
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.Collection: Law
In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.Collection: Men
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.Collection: Generalization
Never lose your temper, except intentionally.Collection: Temper
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.Collection: Home
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.Collection: Book
Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person.Collection: Important
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.Collection: Fashion
I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.Collection: Believe
The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.Collection: Unity
We are particularly thankful to you for your part in the movement to have the words under God added to our Pledge of Allegiance. These words will remind Americans that despite our great physical strength we must remain humble. They will help us keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles which alone give dignity to man.Collection: Spiritual
Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.Collection: Work
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.Collection: Battle
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.Collection: Military
I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].Collection: War
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Collection: Funny
Take your job seriously, but not yourselfCollection: Jobs
Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.Collection: Struggle
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.Collection: Blessing
America is best described by one word, freedom.Collection: America
And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.Collection: Age
But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.Collection: Summer
I'm for each and against none.Collection: Competition
[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.Collection: Children
I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .Collection: Sports
The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.Collection: Wise
One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.Collection: Believe
They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.Collection: Heart
The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.Collection: Life
The eyes of the world are upon you.Collection: Eye
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.Collection: Smart
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.Collection: Faults
There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.Collection: Peace
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.Collection: Peace
So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.Collection: Peace
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.Collection: War
Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.Collection: War
For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple - this single - this exclusive goal.Collection: Peace