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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.

“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

All Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics

“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

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good

“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Strength

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics

“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Men

“War settles nothing.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

War

“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

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Society

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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