Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

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

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

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

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

Pessimism never won any battle.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

Beware the military-industrial complex.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Take your job seriously, but not yourself

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

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

I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

I call upon those who love the freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.

The president cannot escape from his office.

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.

The sergeant in the Army.

Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in inefficiency.

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

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

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

Don't join the book burners!

Memory should be the starting point of the present.

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

Work should be for all of us a word as honourable and appealing as patriotism.

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

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.

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

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

People, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than governments.