Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “We view our Nation’s strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

203. “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

204. “When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

206. “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

207. “The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

210. “As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

211. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

213. “The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

214. “I’m for each and against none.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

217. “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

218. “May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

219. “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

220. “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

221. “Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

231. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

233. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

244. “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

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245. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

247. “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

248. “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

249. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower