Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.
Dwight D. EisenhowerOur 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.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWe do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.
Dwight D. EisenhowerFew women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. EisenhowerMen 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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower