1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Principles]
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame — Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Atheism]
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Intelligence and Intellectuals]
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Lies and Lying]
Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [War]
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Farming and Farmers]
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels — men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [America]
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Freedom]
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Generals]
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [War]
I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Poverty and The Poor]
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem — and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [America]
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Persuasion]
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Age and Aging]
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Planning]
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Leaders and Leadership]
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Dissent]
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Motivation]
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [Procrastination]
Only Americans can hurt America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – [America]