Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes - Page 20

Quotes about:

• And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  4 Copy quote

• I come from the very heart of America.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Heart, America

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1978). “The papers: The chief of staff”

  4 Copy quote

• The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Purpose, Pay

  Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

  4 Copy quote

• 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. Eisenhower

  Sports, Football, Team

  4 Copy quote

• The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Mean, Government, Agriculture

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.61, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

• The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Agreement, Important

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.331, Best Books on

  18 Copy quote

• Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Responsibility, Men, Trust In God

  4 Copy quote

• Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Exercise, Golf

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Simple, Dedication

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Mean

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.1066, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

• You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Education, College, Looks

  4 Copy quote

• You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Military, Vietnam

  News conference, 7 Apr. 1954

  9 Copy quote

• Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hate, Years, President

  19 Copy quote

• I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Warfare, Use

  Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly

  4 Copy quote

• 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. Eisenhower

  Regret, War, Effort

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.9, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

• Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Military, War

  12 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Fighting, Air

  4 Copy quote

• The eyes of the world are upon you.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Eye, D Day, World

  Order of the Day, 2 June 1944

  59 Copy quote

• I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, World, Earth

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.351, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

• There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  World, Affair, Confession

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.34, Best Books on

  7 Copy quote

• Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Lovely, President

  7 Copy quote

• No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Agreement, Constitution, Treaties

  5 Copy quote

• Public opinion wins wars.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Winning, Public Opinion

  "Why the reporter is the last bastion of truth" by Jon Swain, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

• Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Want, Students, Walks

  6 Copy quote

• For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Desire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.396, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

Page 20 of 21

First

← Prev

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin