Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Profession : President

Birth : October 14, 1890

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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

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

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

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

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

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pessimism never won any battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only Americans can hurt America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower