Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

253. “Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

254. “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

255. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

257. “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

258. “The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

261. “There can be no peace without law.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

262. “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

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

269. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

271. “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

272. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

274. “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

275. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

277. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

281. “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

282. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

284. “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

285. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

287. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

289. “I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

291. “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

292. “The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

293. “From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

295. “How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

296. “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

297. “Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

298. “The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can’t get.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

299. “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

300. “I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower