Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. Dwight D. Eisenhower More Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower More Quotes From Dwight D. Eisenhower The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored. Dwight D. Eisenhower gravityshouldmatter Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. Dwight D. Eisenhower freedomwisdompeace Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism. Dwight D. Eisenhower honorableshouldwork The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . . Dwight D. Eisenhower racerunninghistory Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess. Dwight D. Eisenhower realmenmean We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method. Dwight D. Eisenhower purposefacescharacter We have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn't America. Dwight D. Eisenhower fightingideasthinking War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil. Dwight D. Eisenhower evilwarmean Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him. Dwight D. Eisenhower tyrantsdeedsremember Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is. Dwight D. Eisenhower caregovernmentreligious The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. Dwight D. Eisenhower rattlesnakesshouldmen When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept. Dwight D. Eisenhower uniformsacceptingmilitary We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every American this matter of the sound dollar is crucial. Without a sound dollar, every American family would face a renewal of inflation, an ever-increasing cost of living, the withering away of savings and life insurance policies. Dwight D. Eisenhower cost-of-livingstrongbelieve The president cannot escape from his office. Dwight D. Eisenhower officepresident We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. Dwight D. Eisenhower generationsdemocracyfarewell 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. Dwight D. Eisenhower warfaremilitaryuse I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won. Dwight D. Eisenhower militarycharacterwar And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out. Dwight D. Eisenhower defensewarway Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. Dwight D. Eisenhower hatepresidentyears We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life. Dwight D. Eisenhower rightsseawar
