Quotes By Dwight Eisenhower

For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

We must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

We face a hostile ideology; global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration.

The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer - never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership - to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience.

You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

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

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.