Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

154. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

159. “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

160. “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

161. “Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

162. “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

163. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

165. “The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

167. “Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

168. “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

169. “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

170. “America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

172. “Don’t join the book burners!”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

173. “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

174. “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

175. “A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

176. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

178. “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

179. “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

180. “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

181. “This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

182. “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

183. “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

184. “True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

185. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

187. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

189. “No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one... Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

190. “We view our Nation’s strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

191. “Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

193. “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

194. “Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

195. “A nation’s hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

196. “There is no such thing as human superiority.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

197. “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

198. “Ideologen sind Leute, die glauben, dass die Menschheit besser sei als der Mensch.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

199. “The winning of war – the effectiveness in such things – is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

200. “There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower