Dwight D. Eisenhower Top 10 Quotes

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)

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower (First Inaugural address, 1953)

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)

Unless we progress, we regress.

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

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 (Radio Broadcast, 1959)

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)

If a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all; and equally, that if hope exists in the mind of one nation, that hope should be shared by all.

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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower (First Inaugural address, 1953)

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

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

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (First Inaugural address, 1953)