Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

307. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

311. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

313. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

317. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

319. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

321. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

323. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

326. “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

327. “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

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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

332. “I’m for each and against none.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

334. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

337. “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

338. “No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one... Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

342. “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

343. “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

344. “There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

345. “Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

346. “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

347. “Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

348. “I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

349. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower