Dwight D. Eisenhower America Quotations

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

Only Americans can hurt America.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles.

America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.

I come from the very heart of America.

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As 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 freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?