D

Dwight D. Eisenhower

47 quotes

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.

“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

History

All Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Best

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Faith

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

History

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pet

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Art

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Intelligence

“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

“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

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Society

“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

“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

Peace

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Home

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Art

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom

“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

“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

History