I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. Dwight D. Eisenhower More Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower More Quotes From Dwight D. Eisenhower If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here. Dwight D. Eisenhower supremacy military air I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it. Dwight D. Eisenhower tradition baseball believe War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else. Dwight D. Eisenhower race suicide war They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith. Dwight D. Eisenhower rights heart men How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us? Dwight D. Eisenhower light men night The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That ideal previously had existed only in the hearts and minds of men. They produced the timeless documents upon which the Nation is rounded and has grown great. They, recognizing God as the author of individual fights, declared that the purpose of Government is to secure those rights. Dwight D. Eisenhower fighting heart father The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators. Dwight D. Eisenhower determined government today Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without. Dwight D. Eisenhower injustice-and-oppression fear men Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy. Dwight D. Eisenhower wicked defeat democracy Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave. Dwight D. Eisenhower gun brave war 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. Dwight D. Eisenhower stupid men war The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. Dwight D. Eisenhower unity defense No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. Dwight D. Eisenhower humanity justice people Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists. Dwight D. Eisenhower civilization science mean Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal. Dwight D. Eisenhower signals giving war May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more. Dwight D. Eisenhower flames light land It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war-until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea. Dwight D. Eisenhower simple jobs war The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace. Dwight D. Eisenhower government peace people ... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak. Dwight D. Eisenhower strong law justice The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace. Dwight D. Eisenhower wages war peace
