All Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
- 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… Acquisition
- 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… Army
- Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Army
- I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have… Anti War
- 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. Anti War
- I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Anti War
- I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. Center
- Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted… Accepted
- You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. Assault
- The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. Defend
- We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. Absolute
- Plans are nothing; planning is everything. Inspiring
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Intellectual
- Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Corn
- Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. Any
- Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what… Citizen
- I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? America
- 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… Brave
- History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. American Dream
- Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. America