Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
Dwight David Eisenhower was born on the 14th of October, 1890 in Denison, Texas, United States. He was an American politician and soldier who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Dwight David Eisenhower promoted Atoms for Peace at the United Nations General Assembly in order to ease Cold War tensions.
During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. Dwight David Eisenhower received several military awards, promotions and decorations. He died 28th March, 1969 in Washington, D.C., United States.
In this article, you will find a collection of famous Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes and sayings.
70 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Life, Politics & Leadership
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Neither a wise 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 Quote
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“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 Quote
“shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“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 Quote
“War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.”― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“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 Quote
“Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“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 Quote
“Pessimism never won any battle.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“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 Quote
“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 Quote
“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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“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 Quote
“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“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 Quote
“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“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 Quote
“Only Americans can hurt America.”― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“If you are waging peace, you can’t be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral. We must not be parsimonious, as long as we are not shooting, we are not spending one tenth as much.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.”― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“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 Quote
“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“As we peer into society’s future, we — you and I, and our government — must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote
“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote