77 Quotes By Dwight D. Eisenhower


If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on men

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 men

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

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
Dwight D. Eisenhower on men

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 motivational

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on peace

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on peace

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on peace

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

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on peace

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on peace

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

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on pet

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on politics

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 politics

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on politics

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on politics

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on power

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 respect

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 sad