Quotes

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

War settles nothing.
-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.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 middle age.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
-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, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
-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

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
-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

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 him.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
-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

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower