Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.”

“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”

“I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.”

“Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.”

“If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.”

“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”

“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

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

“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.”