Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotations

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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	more quotations on [Perspective]

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.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [War]

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	more quotations on [War]

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [War]

Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [Conformity]

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [Success]

Only Americans can hurt America.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [America]

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	more quotations on [Attitude]

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [Freedom]

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [Leadership] [Humor]

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [Leadership]

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [Leadership]

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	more quotations on [Television]

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [Society]

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	more quotations on [Change] [History]

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	more quotations on [Peace]

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [Peace]

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
	- Dwight D. Eisenhower	more quotations on [Peace]

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