People Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is very little that our government or any government can do to plant the seeds of international understanding in the hearts…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The other day Aks and I went up to your ranch for a day's fishing. I cannot remember any day when we…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

. . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President anybody that it…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower