Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quotations
Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. (April 1953, Washington, D.C.)
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. (June 1953, Dartmouth College)
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. (May 1954, New York City)
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. (Sept. 1956, Peoria, Ill.)
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. (Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1953)
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. (Jan. 1954)
Like all successful politicians I married above myself.
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