649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

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

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

[on the atomic bomb] It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.