Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.

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

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

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

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

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

The eyes of the world are upon you.

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.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

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

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.

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.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

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

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

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

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

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

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

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

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

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

Only Americans can hurt America.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you.

Never lose your temper, except intentionally.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

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

Unless we progress, we regress.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.