Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

There is no such thing as human superiority.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

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 have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

I'm for each and against none.

You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.

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

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

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

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

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.

Beware the military-industrial complex.

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.

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.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things....It is American belief in decency and justice and progress and the value of individual liberty because of the rights conferred on each of us by our Creator that willcarry us through.... There must be something in the heart as well as the head.

You did not tell me what you are doing athletically just now but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring you can get it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the best game of all of them.

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Only Americans can hurt America.

We have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn't America.

Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

There is very little that our government or any government can do to plant the seeds of international understanding in the hearts and minds of people around the world. If people by the millions can reach out their hands in friendship and communicate directly warmth, personal interest and respect, it will be a real beginning in the struggle for a peaceful world.

Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

There can be no peace without law.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.