649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.