Quotes By Dwight Eisenhower

My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

To preserve his freedom of worship, his equality before law, his liberty to speak and act as he sees fit, subject only to provisions that he trespass not upon similar rights of others - a Londoner will fight. So will a citizen of Abilene.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

I thought so at first, but there is reason to believe that he [Adolf Hitler] is still alive. But that in itself does not constitute a problem.

Steady, Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.

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

The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America's strength.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.

The proudest human that walks the earth is a free American citizen.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem... because in censorship always lurks the very great danger of working to the disadvantage of the American nation.

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

There is - in world affairs - a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country.

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