Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

• 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

• Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

  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

• If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 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

• If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

  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

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 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.

  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

• 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

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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• 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.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower (116)

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

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