Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

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253. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

255. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

257. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

259. “I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

260. “We must be strong at home if we are going to be strong abroad. We understand that. So we want to be strong at home in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our education, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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261. “Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

262. “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

263. “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

264. “How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

265. “The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

266. “Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro’s government go on.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

267. “No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

268. “Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

269. “Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

270. “We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

271. “An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

272. “If a man’s associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

273. “In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

274. “The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

275. “Why don’t you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

276. “I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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277. “The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

278. “Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

279. “War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

280. “From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

281. “I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

282. “When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

283. “In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

284. “Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

285. “The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning – and ready to pay its full price.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

286. “The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

287. “Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

288. “The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

289. “The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

290. “For all that we cherish and justly desire – for ourselves or for our children – the securing of peace is the first requisite.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

291. “Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

292. “Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

293. “Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

294. “We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

295. “Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

296. “We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

297. “Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

298. “Like all successful politicians I married above myself.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

299. “In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country’s most powerful resource in peace and war.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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300. “The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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