Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes for UPSC

This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.

It is the firm duty of each of our free citizens and of every free citizen everywhere to place the cause of his country before the comfort, the convenience of himself.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

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.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

The free individual has been justified as his own master; the state as his servant.

In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

The government in Washington belongs to you.

Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.

It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The history of free men is never really written by chance-but by choice-their choice.

Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.

The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.

We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country.

We are—proudly—a people with no sense of class or caste. We judge no man by his name or inheritance, but by what he does—and for what he stands.

The right of no nation depends upon the date of its birth or the size of its power. As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so—we believe—there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.

I believe that the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative.

Recognizing economic health as an indispensable basis of military strength and the free world's peace, we shall strive to foster everywhere, and to practice ourselves, policies that encourage productivity and profitable trade. For the impoverishment of any single people in the world means danger to the well-being of all other peoples.

The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it.

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. ... No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.

All the historic precedents, the soaring graphs, the staggering statistics—these measure size more than substance. And the largeness and greatness of our nation would be almost a mockery—without a matching greatness of heart and largeness of vision as we look out upon the world.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make — we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.