Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. 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.

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.