Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

War settles nothing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Nothing, Settles

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

American, Anywhere, Troops

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Confidence, Honor, Mutual

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Important, Able, Far

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics, Lovely, Oh

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Simple, Survival, Pleasures

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Give, Leaders

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Problems, Rarely, Dates

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

Worry, Word, Allow

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Age, Women, Fear

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Today, Sense

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Shall, Trip, Korea

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

Thought, Same, Name

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Old, Saving, Rocker

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Old, Office, Sit

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Learned, Speak, President

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Past, Free, Prove

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

History, Job, Second

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Important, Step, United

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

Good, Once, Ideas

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

Successful, Person, Rights

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

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

May, Die, Cannot

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

Peace, Freedom, Knowing

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

Down, President, Reporter

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 14, 1890

Died: March 28, 1969

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