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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Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

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 D. 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 D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Dwight D. 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.

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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 D. Eisenhower

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. 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 D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

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

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The sergeant is the Army.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantia...

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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