Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

About Dwight D. Eisenhower:

Dwight David was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961, and the last U.S. President to have been born in the 19th century. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

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 come to hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Dwight D. 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 D. Eisenhower

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Author Bio

  • NameDwight D. Eisenhower
  • DescriptionAmerican general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
  • AliasesDwight David Eisenhower; Ike; Dwight Eisenhower; David Dwight Eisenhower
  • BornOctober 14, 1890
  • DiedMarch 28, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Writer; Officer
  • AwardsAtoms For Peace Award; Companion Of The Liberation; Grand Cross Of The Order Of The Oak Crown; Knight Grand Cross Of The Order Of The Bath; Grand Cross Of The Order Of Wissam El Alaouite; Legionnaire Of Legion Of Merit; Order Of Victory; Africa Star; Distinguished Service Medal (United States Army); Mexican Border Service Medal; World War I Victory Medal; American Defense Service Medal; European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Army Of Occupation Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Order Of Aeronautical Merit; Order Of The Southern Cross; Order Of Leopold; Order Of The White Lion; Order Of The Elephant; Virtuti Militari; Order Of Polonia Restituta; Order Of The Royal House Of Chakri; Order Of Glory