Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

152. “It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom’s price.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

153. “The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

154. “Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity – if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

155. “So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

156. “I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

157. “Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

158. “War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

159. “Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

160. “No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one’s best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one’s duty.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

161. “We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

162. “The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

163. “First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

164. “You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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165. “Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

166. “The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

167. “For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple – this single – this exclusive goal.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

168. “Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

169. “I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

170. “Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

171. “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.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

172. “In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

173. “Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

174. “Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

175. “The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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176. “Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don’t swallow it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

177. “Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

178. “I come from the very heart of America.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

179. “Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

180. “When you appeal to force, there’s one thing you must never do – lose.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

181. “No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

182. “Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

183. “We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

184. “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

185. “Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

186. “In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

187. “Don’t join the book burners!”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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188. “There can be no peace without law.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

189. “The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

190. “When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

191. “If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

192. “Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

193. “And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

194. “Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

195. “Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control – whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

196. “As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

197. “As we peer into society’s future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

198. “We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, ’41, till August of ’45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

199. “The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower