Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

Beware the military-industrial complex.

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.