Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

To the USSR on Stalin's death: Regardless of the identity of government personalities, the prayer of us Americans continues to be that the Almighty will watch over the people of that vast country and bring them in His wisdom opportunity to live their lives in a world where all men, and women, and children, dwell in peace and comradeship.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.

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

One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get out of their way and give it to them.

Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.

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.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.