649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.

The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I find grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."