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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) was the 34th President of the United States and a five-star general who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II. His leadership during the D-Day invasion and his presidency — marked by economic prosperity and Cold War strategy — defined the mid-20th century.

“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Strength

All Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Best

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Government

“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Strength

“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good

“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Faith

“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Intelligence

“War settles nothing.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

War

“Every gun that is made, 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.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

War

“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

“In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

War

“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good

“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fear

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Intelligence

“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Home

“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom