649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession – to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things – call them what you will – I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.

For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple – this single – this exclusive goal.

One small ball in the air. I wouldn’t believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A nation’s hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.

There is – in world affairs – a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.