Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote: To be true to one’s own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom...
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To be true to one’s own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (State of the Union Address, 1953)

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

War settles nothing. 

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Quoted in Quote Magazine, 1965)

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower (First Inaugural address, 1953)

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is a long tough road we have to travel.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Letter to Vernon Prichard, 1942)

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote:As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it....

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (State of the Union Address, 1953)

Unless we progress, we regress.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (State of the Union Address, 1959)

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (First Inaugural address, 1953)

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Speech at an English Speaking Union Dinner, 1951)

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. 

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pessimism never won any battle. 

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The whole book of history reveals mankind's never-ending quest for peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Speech before the United Nations - Atoms for Peace, 1953)

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (State of the Union Address, 1959)

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (State of the Union Address, 1958)



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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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 (Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast, 1958)

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.

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

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Speech in Ottawa, 1946)

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Biography

Born: October 14, 1890
Died: March 28, 1969

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States. He served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces during World War 2.