Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Made, Sense

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

Freedom, Medical, Care

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

Life, Death, Child

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

Power, Government, Against

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

Society, Both, Values

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Success, Leadership, Integrity

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

Peace, Government, Days

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

Leadership, Art, Someone

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Women, Men, May

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

War, Hate, Stupidity

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

Respect, Trust, Fear

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trying, Problem, Far

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

Leadership, Head, Lead

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Left, Either, Rocks

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing, Everything, Plans

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

Security, Ourselves, Search

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

Motivational, Art, Motivation

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Intelligence, Words, Tell

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

Men, War, Thought

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Easy, Looks, Thousand

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

Crazy, President, Either

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?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Political, Fire

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

Politics, Good, Free

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

History, Freedom, Care

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

History, Future, Wise

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 14, 1890

Died: March 28, 1969

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