Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

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

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, 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.

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, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.