Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

  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

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

  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

• 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

• Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

  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

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Pessimism never won any battle.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 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

• Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Only Americans can hurt America.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower (116)

Birth:	14th October, 1890
Death:	28th March, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

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