Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

One day the people of the world will want peaceso much that the governments will have to get outof their way and give it to them.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pessimism never won any battle.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only Americans can hurt America.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In war there is no substitute for victory.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower