Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

52. “There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and ‘My, you’re looking good!’”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

53. “The final battle against intolerance is to be fought – not in the chambers of any legislature – but in the hearts of men.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

55. “Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

56. “Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession – to defend it against every thrust from within or without.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

57. “The sergeant is the Army.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

58. “Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

59. “United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God’s help, go forward to our greatest victory.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

60. “Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

61. “To be true to one’s own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

62. “When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

63. “There is no victory at bargain basement prices.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

64. “Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

65. “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

66. “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

67. “Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

68. “Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

69. “The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

70. “May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly – until at last the darkness is no more.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

72. “Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

73. “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

74. “Never lose your temper, except intentionally.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

75. “Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

77. “Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

78. “The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

79. “The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

80. “If our founding fathers were alive today, they’d roll over in their graves.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

81. “This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that’s the way it’s going to be. We’re going down there, and we’re throwing everything we have into it, and we’re going to make it a success.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

82. “Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

83. “Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

84. “I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

86. “Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

87. “Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

88. “The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

89. “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

90. “The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

91. “I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

92. “Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

93. “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

94. “Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

95. “Memory should be the starting point of the present.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

96. “No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

97. “Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

98. “In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people’s money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

99. “You can’t have this kind of war. There just aren’t enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

100. “Public opinion wins wars.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower