Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower