Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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

Peace, Long, Days

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

Heart, America, Whatever

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good, America, Problem

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Good, Men

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

Wish, Follow, Push

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humility, Friends, Blood

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

Care, Game, Atheist

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wanted, Beer, Hot

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

Love, Faith, Freedom

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Experience, Hate

Only Americans can hurt America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trying, Far, Within

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

Against, Whether, Influence

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Together, Learn, Purpose

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

Pet, Fight, Dog

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Soldier, Choice, Final

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

Battle, Found, Useless

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

Book, Thoughts, Evidence

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

Peace, Men, Justice

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thoughts, Evidence, Conceal

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Law, Show

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

War, Peace, Fight

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Justice, Two

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

Wisdom, Human, Find

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 14, 1890

Died: March 28, 1969

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