Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

We are engaged in the defense of a way of life, and the great danger was that in defending this way of life we will find ourselves resorting to methods that endangered this way of life.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Emotions change. Truth doesn't. What will you build your life upon?

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

"Adjust to changing times but sticking to unchanging principles" - committing me and all Americans to real ideals of justice and truth, no matter what difficulties faced us.

Don't compromise your principles.

The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you take a look at them . . . Liberation theology, in Brazil particularly, brought the actual Gospel to peasants. They said, let's read what the Gospels say, and try to act on the principles they describe. That was the major crime that set off the Reagan wars of terror.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.

Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

You're only as good as your values.

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.