This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house,...

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States

The sergeant is the Army.

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.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Eisenhower Arrives for U.N.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also...

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first the most basic expression of Americanism.”

Every gun that’s made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms…is spending the genius...

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem — and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Don’t join the book burners… Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Only Americans can hurt America.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

We face a hostile ideology (communism): global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

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.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

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.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Hitler liked to spend a lot of special time with goats.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

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...

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice