A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
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 Quote
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
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 Quote
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Only Americans can hurt America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
The sergeant is the Army.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
