Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

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

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

The sergeant is the Army.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.

The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

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

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

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

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

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

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

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.

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.

Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

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

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

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

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

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

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

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.

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.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

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