Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower in Humor quotes.

"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower in Books quotes.

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower in Success quotes.

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-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 in Television quotes.

"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."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower in America quotes.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

"We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

"Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle."
-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

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

"Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed, ... My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw."
-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

"On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower