Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

We have a great nation to help govern. We who are citizens of this great republic are favored children, yet we are all the time complaining; but that is one of the inalienable privileges of an American to complain about his neighbor and government-always crying for a change. But, with all of its faults, this is the best government for man on the face of the earth

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a 100% Americanism.

For citizens to always be ready to defend and to maintain American ideals of public justice and liberty would add to the self respect of the people. It will teach the people to think of their government as a unified and exalted power for good in the world—humane, unselfish, and aspiring.

An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease and security in order that he and his children may retain the right of free men.

I believe in defending democracy by preserving democracy, not by descending to the use of the same weapons used in dictatorships, whether of the Nazi or Communist stripe.

I wish more people would take a stand and stand up for the principles on which this country was founded.

It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.

I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the American Constitution.

Our job here is to defend freedom.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world

There is nothing more American than dissent.

The current investigations are an incomparably greater danger to our society than those few Communists in the country ever could be. These investigations have already undermined to a considerable extent the democratic character of our society.

The U. S. put the Japanese in camps during World War II; it had McCarthyism and now they have [George W.] Bush. But it will all pass. Democracy corrects itself.