Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

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

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Pessimism never won any battle.

The sergeant is the Army.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Only Americans can hurt America.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

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.

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

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.

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