Quotes By Dwight D. Eisenhower

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

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.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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.