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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

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

History

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

“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

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Strength

“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

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Age

“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

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

“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

“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Death

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Intelligence

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Faith