Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

205. “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

206. “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

207. “The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

208. “As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

209. “I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

210. “We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

211. “We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make – we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

212. “These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

213. “You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

214. “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

215. “The world must know what happened, and never forget.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

216. “Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

217. “Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

218. “An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

219. “In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

220. “I don’t think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don’t need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

223. “The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

224. “Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

226. “My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

228. “I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

229. “You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

230. “That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

231. “The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

232. “As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

233. “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

234. “I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

235. “Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

236. “No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

237. “Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

240. “Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

241. “I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

242. “Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

243. “One small ball in the air. I wouldn’t believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

244. “If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

246. “Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

247. “Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

248. “No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

250. “First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower