Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Politics
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Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.
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We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
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There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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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.
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The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.
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I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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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.
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Born: October 14, 1890
- Died: March 28, 1969
- Occupation: 34th U.S. President
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