Quotes By Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

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.

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.

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?

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

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.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

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

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.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of 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.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

The sergeant is the Army.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

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.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

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.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Pessimism never won any battle.