Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

No President should seek a third term, that is if he believes in the continuation of democracy in this country.

A common person can never again be President of the United States.

In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

If the people of the United States can be trusted to elect a President for one term, or two terms, they also can be trusted to determine whether he should be considered in office for a third term.

The same person shall not be elected President of the United States a second time; nor shall the President be elected from the same State two terms in succession.

Elected presidents are for countries.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

In America you elect the electoral college and they select the President. In Russia, the people select the President directly. This is more democratic.

The Electoral College is an antidemocratic relic.

The Republic...may suffer under the present imbecile chief, but the sober second thought of the people will restore it at out next Presidential election.

How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making an election of government for themselves and their children.

There are few things we will do in America as important as pulling the lever for President of the United States of America.

We will soon know whether the Supreme Court choose the President of the United States or the people of Florida chose the President.

Experience concurs with reason in concluding that the first magistrate [President] will always be re-elected if the constitution permits it. He is then an officer for life.

We are a democracy and I will go with the 51 percent wherever that leads us.

The debate is ended. Fifty percent plus one vote is all we need to govern this country.

I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent.

The Framers of the Constitution expected the presidency to be occupied by special individuals, selfless people of the highest character and ability. They intended the Electoral College to be a truly deliberative body, not the largely ceremonial institution it has become today.

It's my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president.

I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president.