Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes

Dwight D. Eisenhower was an American military leader and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States. Widely respected for his leadership during World War II as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, he later guided the country through a pivotal era in the Cold War. He is remembered for advocating peace and infrastructure development, including the creation of the interstate highway system. Here are 300 of his quotes:

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of free men is never really written by chance - but by choice. Their choice.

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

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 D. Eisenhower

Pessimism never won any battle.

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

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

The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it.

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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

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 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

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only Americans can hurt America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower