Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

34th President of the United States. His success as the supreme allied commander during World War II propelled him into the White House in both 1952 and 1956.
(1890 - 1969)

...if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

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

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

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

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. [Intellect]

And when he goes to heaven, to St. Peter he will tell: One more soldier reporting, sir. I've served my time in hell.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

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

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Being shot at focuses the mind wonderfully.

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.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until ordered to do so.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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 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 cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
[War]

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. [Age]