Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quotes

• “We merely want to live in peace with all the world to trade with them to commune with them to learn from their cultur...”
• “If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for sui...”
• “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsough...”
• “I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I thin...”
• “This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the ...”
• “Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to disse...”
• “In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international...”
• “In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international...”
• “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free peopl...”
• “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm...”
• “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who ...”
• “The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces t...”
• “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 b...”
• “Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better t...”
• “Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates cre...”
• “This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation ...”
• “Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the...”
• “If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lackin...”
• “If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lackin...”
• “Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our streng...”
• “Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of...”
• “Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of h...”
• “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 i...”
• “One day the people of the world will want peaceso much that the governments will have to get outof their way and give it...”
• “The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it...”
• “When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to h...”
• “Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a...”
• “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them h...”
• “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them ha...”
• “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...”
• “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 dece...”
• “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over hi...”
• “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
• “The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”
• “There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
• “The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”
• “The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”
• “We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,”
• “An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.”
• “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
• “I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.”
• “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.”
• “There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
• “Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.”
• “An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
• “The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!”
• “Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”
• “You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”
• “The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.”
• “Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”