A biography for Dwight D. Eisenhowerhasn’t been written yet.
“The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.”
“Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.”
“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.”
“No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.”
“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
“I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.”
“I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.”
“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.”
“In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.”
“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.”
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.”
“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.”
“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”
“The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.”
“Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”
“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”
“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.”