Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Memorial Day

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

• There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Sports, Military

• In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, People, Stupidity

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.315, Best Books on

• To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things....It is American belief in decency and justice and progress and the value of individual liberty because of the rights conferred on each of us by our Creator that willcarry us through.... There must be something in the heart as well as the head.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Heart, Rights

• The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Religious, Israel, People

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.153, Best Books on

• Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, Men, Injustice And Oppression

  Dwight D. Eisenhower (1948). “Crusade in Europe”

• The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Responsibility, Land, Government

• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ignorance, Errors, Guarantees

  "Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Post-war American National Security Policy". Book by John Lewis Gaddis, 1982.

• ... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hands, Use, World

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