Dwight D. Eisenhower Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Dwight D. Eisenhower:

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The sergeant is the Army.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

War settles nothing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Dwight D. Eisenhower