Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of the summer afternoon on a river bank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be president of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have serious doubts about the value of debates in a presidential election. They tend to be a test of reaction time rather than a genuine exposition of the participants’ philosophies and programs. Further, in debate, candidates tend to overstate their views.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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 D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
—Dwight D. Eisehower