649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control – whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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

As we peer into society’s future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense – to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.

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.