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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You do not lead by hitting people over the head that's assault, not leadership. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only Americans can hurt America.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In preparing for battle, I have found that planning is essential, but plans are useless. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
— Neil Shubin
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.
— Joel Garreau
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't join the book burners!
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world must know what happened, and never forget.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you can't solve a problem, enlarge it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
— 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 peace and fellowship and justice.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pessimism never won any battle.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general ... They win battles, and they make me lucky.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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 D. Eisenhower
One day the people of the world will want peaceso much that the governments will have to get out
of their way and give it to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
God, I hate the Germans ...
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people
— 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 center.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The president cannot escape from his office.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower