WIST

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
(1963)

The middle of the road is all the usable surface. The extreme, right and left, are in the gutters.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
(Attributed)

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
(Attributed)

The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
(Attributed)

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
(Attributed)

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
(Attributed)

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
(Attributed)

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
(Attributed)
Quoted in R. Nixon, Six Crises, "Krushchev" (1962).

Oh, that lovely title, ex-President.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
New York Post (26 Oct 1959)

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Parade (1962)

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

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Time (25 Oct. 1963)

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Address on the first observance of “Law Day” (5 May 1958)

In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Address to UN General Assembly (13 Aug 1958)

On the Middle East crisis.

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.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Address, Guildhall, London (12 Jun 1945)

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought — not in the chambers of any legislature — but in the hearts of men

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Campaign speech, Los Angeles (19 Oct. 1956)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
First Inaugural Address (20 Jan. 1953)

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
First Inaugural Address (20 Jan. 1953)

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder, to endure more now, that the future may be better.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Gabriel Silver Lecture, McMillin Academic Theater, Columbia U., New York (23 Mar 1950)
Full text.

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

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Inaugural Address (1953)

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

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Inaugural address (20 Jan 1953)

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedom’s defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Letter to Dr. Robert B. Downs, pres. of the American Library Association (24 Jun 1953)

You don’t promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
News conference (20 Jan. 1957)

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
News conference, Washington (6-Feb-1957)

The world moves and ideas that were good once are not always good.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Press Conference. Washington. D.C. (31 Aug. 1955)

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road. [Even more, I despise those who] go to the gutter on either the right or the left, and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Speech at Birthday Celebration, Washington (Oct. 1963)

Quoted in Time (25 Oct 1963)

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Speech to Luncheon Clubs, Galveston, Texas (8 Dec 1949)

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Speech to Luncheon Clubs, Galveston, Texas (8 Dec 1949)

Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Speech, Columbia University (23 Mar 1950)

Here in America we are descended in blood and spirit from revolutionaries and rebels — men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Speech, Columbia University Bicentennial Dinner, New York City (31 May 1954)

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) US President (1954-60)
Speech, Dartmouth College (14 Jun. 1953)
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