Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. T...

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her cit...

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered s...

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to...

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process w...

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

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate...

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possi...

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a c...

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the ...

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

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almos...

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

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the re...

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that ...

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. T...

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a ...

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

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a t...

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

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you...

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the ...

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation...

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do i...

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, wheth...

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and wom...

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvatio...

Pessimism never won any battle.

War settles nothing.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, ...

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

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

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the Americ...

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate l...

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, wheth...

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the f...

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

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving y...

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

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the do...

One day the people of the world will want peaceso much that the governments will have to get outof t...

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of thei...

Only Americans can hurt America.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experien...

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

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the w...

When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a t...

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and...

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

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and priv...

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me luc...

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today ...

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can fin...

We merely want to live in peace with all the world to trade with them to commune with them to lea...

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered s...

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

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

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their...

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

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we...

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance t...

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

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governm...

If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. T...