Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA
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“Pessimism never won any battle.”
Pessimism
“Only Americans can hurt America.”
America
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”
Planning
“There is no victory at bargain basement prices.”
Price
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Peace
“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”
Cooperation
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
Freedom
“The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.”
Past
“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”
Peace
“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
Dissent
“Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.”
Truth
“The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.”
Voting
“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”
Change
“I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.”
Age and Aging
“Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.”
Politicians and Politics
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Principles
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
Freedom
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”
Leaders and Leadership
“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.”
Desire
“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”
Decisions
“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”
Leaders and Leadership
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
Motivation
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
Planning
“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”
America
“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”
Cities and City Life
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”
Farming and Farmers
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Leaders and Leadership
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Competition
“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame -- Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.”
Atheism