649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding....

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

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

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

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

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

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