“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 Eisenhower
“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 Eisenhower
“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” Dwight Eisenhower
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight Eisenhower WisdomPeoplePrivilegePrinciplesValue
“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 Eisenhower
“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 Eisenhower
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight Eisenhower DoneInspirationalWiseArtLeadership
“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 it.” Dwight Eisenhower
“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 Eisenhower
“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 Eisenhower
“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 Eisenhower
“I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.” Dwight Eisenhower
“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” Dwight Eisenhower
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” Dwight Eisenhower
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.” Dwight Eisenhower
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.” Dwight Eisenhower
“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 is good and fruitful in our national heritage.” Dwight Eisenhower
“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” Dwight Eisenhower
“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 Eisenhower
“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.” Dwight Eisenhower
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” Dwight Eisenhower
“In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?” Dwight Eisenhower
“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.” Dwight Eisenhower
“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.” Dwight Eisenhower
“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.” Dwight Eisenhower
