Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Few 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.

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.