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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.

“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

All Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good

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

— 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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Faith

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Government

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics

“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

“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

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

History

“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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Faith

“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

“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