Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes - 9quotes.com

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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Written by 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.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Written by 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.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
Written by 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.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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?
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
The sergeant is the Army.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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