Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (136 Quotes)


    The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

    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.

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

    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.

    From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.



    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?

    In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.


    The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

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


    There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.




    We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.


    Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice



    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.

    Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

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

    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.

    There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

    The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

    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.

    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.

    The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!




    We are proud because from the beginning of this nation man can walk upright no matter who he is or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend or his enemy... And he does not fear that, because that enemy may be in a position of great power... that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot here without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the Habeas Corpus Act and we respect it.

    I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.


    You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

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

    In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.


    People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.


    The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

    Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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

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



    Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

    The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.


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