Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes - page 7

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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
We –finally-look upon change, the every-unfolding future, with confidence rather than doubt, hope rather than fear. We, as a people, were born of revolution. And we have lived by change-always a frontier people, exploring-if not new wilderness-then new science and new knowledge. View quote
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It was generally conceded that had an election been held, Ho Chi Minh would have been elected Premier. View quote
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Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer. View quote
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This is something, eh, that is the kind of thing that must be gone through with what I believe is best not talked about too much until we know whatever answers there will be. View quote
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The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others. View quote
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We have erased segregation in those areas of national life to which Federal authority clearly extends. So doing in this, my friends, we have neither sought nor claimed partisan credit, and all such actions are nothing more -- nothing less than the rendering of justice. And we have always been aware of this great truth: the final battle against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men. View quote
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The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual. View quote
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The government in Washington belongs to you. View quote
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I believe that the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion. View quote
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No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. ... No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America's strength. View quote
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The proudest human that walks the earth is a free American citizen. View quote
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It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative. View quote
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Of these greater things I speak to you tonight. It seems to me right to do so here, in Philadelphia, where our forefathers defined the principles by which our nation was born and has ever lived. View quote
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In June of 1776, Richard Henry Lee, rising before the Continental Congress to move his resolution for American independence, declared: "The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us; she demands of us a living example of freedom.”. View quote
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We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed. View quote
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It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed. View quote
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I believe as long as we allow conditions to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-class citizens. View quote
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I think the women, therefore, must be concerned with these values, and I return to my statement that 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. View quote
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If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Biggest damfool mistake I ever made. View quote
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We face a hostile ideology; global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidous in method. Unhappily the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully there is call for not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of questions but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain despite every provocation on our charted course towards permanent peace and human betterment. View quote
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I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces. View quote
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A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law. View quote
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