77 Quotes By Dwight D. Eisenhower


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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on age

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

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

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 on best

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 on best

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on death

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 on experience

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on faith

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 on fear

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on fear

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on freedom

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on freedom

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on freedom

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on freedom

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 on future

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 on good

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower on good

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on good