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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.

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“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

All Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Strength

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Home

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

History

“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

History

“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics

“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

“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

“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

Good

“Neither a wise man 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

Future

“War settles nothing.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

War

“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

“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 people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Experience

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom

“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Faith

“Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Art