649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and optimism is uninhibited by the thousands of considerations that always bedevil man in his progress. The hopes of the world rest on the flexibility, vigor, capacity for new thought, and the fresh outlook of the young.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

Never lose your temper, except intentionally.