Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The history of free men is never really written by chance - but by choice. Their choice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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)
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only Americans can hurt America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower