Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense – to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

307. “To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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308. “There is – in world affairs – a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

311. “The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

312. “Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I’m not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

313. “You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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314. “I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

315. “The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

316. “Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

317. “My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, ‘Oh, please let me swing slowly.’ The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

318. “I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

319. “You know, this is what I’ve always thought a college should look like.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

320. “I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

321. “Remember that it is not by a tyrant’s words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

322. “I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

323. “Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

324. “Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

325. “We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

326. “There is one thing about being President – nobody can tell you when to sit down.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

327. “There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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328. “Now this brings me to my main topic – our military strength – more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

329. “As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

330. “Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom’s enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people’s surest strength.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

331. “We merely want to live in peace with all the world...”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

332. “I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

333. “I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

334. “Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

335. “The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

336. “The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

337. “Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things – call them what you will – I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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338. “The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

339. “Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

340. “The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

341. “Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

342. “We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

343. “If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

344. “Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

345. “Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

346. “We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America’s real message to the rest of the world.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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347. “Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

348. “No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

349. “Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

350. “Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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