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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
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.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
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.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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.
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.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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.
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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.
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.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
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.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
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.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
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.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.