Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotations | Page 2

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.

Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.