Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 579 President quotesPresident QuotesPresident Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Why are we proud [to be American]? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend -- or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower It is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedom’s defenses are found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower I developed a practice which, so far as I know, I have never violated. The practice is to avoid public mention of any name unless it can be done with favorable intent and connotation; reserve all criticism for the private conference; speak only good in public.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.~ Millard Fillmore Isn't it wonderful to live in a country where anyone can grow up to sleep with the President?~ Kevin Freels Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let every one know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.~ James A. Garfield Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.~ James A. Garfield Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.~ James A. Garfield The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is dominated by the executive.~ Edward Gibbon Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.~ Hermann Goering The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of the oppression, if they are strong enough, either by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.~ Ulysses S. Grant I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.~ Ulysses S. Grant If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.~ Ulysses S. Grant I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.~ Ulysses S. Grant Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print