Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

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.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

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

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The eyes of the world are upon you.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.