Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

160. “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

161. “Don’t join the book burners!”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

163. “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

164. “Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief – and I don’t care what it is.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

168. “This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

169. “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

170. “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

171. “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

172. “We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

173. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

180. “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

181. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

184. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

188. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

190. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

192. “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

193. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

195. “War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

196. “I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

197. “The president cannot escape from his office.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

198. “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

199. “Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the most powerful foreign threat. The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

200. “It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower