142 ordspråk av Dwight David Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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We are proud because from the beginning of this nation man can walk upright no matter who he is or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend or his enemy... And he does not fear that, because that enemy may be in a position of great power... that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot here without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the Habeas Corpus Act and we respect it.
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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
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We face a hostile ideology (communism): global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
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Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
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When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would soon disappear
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
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