Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

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

Success

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Courage

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Courage

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

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.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom

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.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hope

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Truth

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.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Courage