Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.
Dwight D. EisenhowerForces 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.
Dwight D. EisenhowerDon't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
Dwight D. EisenhowerPreventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
Dwight D. EisenhowerHow 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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower