Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

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

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

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.

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

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Pessimism never won any battle.

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.

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

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.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

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.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

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

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

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

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.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

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

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