Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

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

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

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.