Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (136 Quotes)

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

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.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

We have heard much of the phrase, ''peace and friendship.'' This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, ''peace and friendship, in freedom.'' This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

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

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.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

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

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Every gun that is fired, 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. The 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.

We face a hostile ideology (communism) global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed, ... My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

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.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

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

I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States

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.

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty

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

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.

An atheist is a guy who watches a Ntre Dame - SMU football game and doesn't care who wins

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

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.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism

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

Hitler liked to spend a lot of special time with goats.