This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.
Dwight D. EisenhowerHelp the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWe have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn't America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower