Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.
Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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.
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
