Quotes

“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

“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” 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

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

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

“Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.” 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

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

“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.” Dwight Eisenhower

“Only Americans can hurt America.” Dwight Eisenhower

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight Eisenhower

“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.” Dwight Eisenhower

“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.” Dwight Eisenhower

“How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?” Dwight Eisenhower

“Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.” Dwight Eisenhower

“In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.” Dwight Eisenhower

“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” Dwight Eisenhower

“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.” Dwight Eisenhower

“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 Eisenhower