Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

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.

The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

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.

I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

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

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

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

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

Memory should be the starting point of the present.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

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

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.

There can be no peace without law.

My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.

The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values

It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.