That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing-the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

Every gun that is fired, 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. The...

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.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to...

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...

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice – their choice

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.

People want peace so badly that governments ought to get out of their way and let them have it.

We won’t get it turned around in one year, or four years or maybe even 10,

War settles nothing.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

Pessimism never won any battle.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

Worry’ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

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.

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,...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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.

Only Americans can hurt America.

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.