Quotes By Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

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

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

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.

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

War settles nothing.

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.

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.

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.

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

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge 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.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

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.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.