Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Profession : President

Birth : October 14, 1890

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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

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

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

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

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 sergeant is the Army.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower