The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? – Dwight D. Eisenhower
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. – Dwight D. Eisenhower