The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

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

Oh yes, I studied dramatics under him for 12 years.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity – if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

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.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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

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...

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...

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

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

Pessimism never won any battle.

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?

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

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.

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.