~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him he will stay just as long as he is scared and then he is gone.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

[MysteRy]

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable 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.

[MysteRy]

From this day forward the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town every village and rural schoolhouse the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.

[MysteRy]

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

[MysteRy]

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

[MysteRy]

We merely want to live in peace with all the world to trade with them to commune with them to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

[MysteRy]

In the counsels 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. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.