Quotes By 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.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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

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.

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

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

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

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

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.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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

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

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

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

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.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

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.

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.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

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.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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.