Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes


Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes



America
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, 
intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 

Book Burning
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by 
concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your 
library and read every book... 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

Burden
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden 
as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:Jan 20, 1953

Don't ever become a general. If you become a general, you just 
plain have too much to worry about.
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:The Toastmaster's treasure Chest



Constitutional Rights
"Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional 
rights, we are weakening our own claim to them."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General
Source: Reader's Digest, December 1963
http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Dwight.Eisenhower.Quote.3FC6

Dissent
"Here in America we are descended in spirit
from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women
who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Source: Speech, Columbia University, 1954

Divine Rights
"They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world
the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man.
That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith."
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President, WWII General
Source:http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Dwight.Eisenhower.Quote.70A7

Dog Fight
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, speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958 

Farming
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're 
a thousand miles from the corn field. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower, September 11, 1956 

First Things
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, 
the blessings of Almighty God. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

Force
When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 

Humor
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, 
of getting things done. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower



Intellectual
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more 
than he knows. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

Now
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 

One Of These Days
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 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

Peace
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration 
and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 

Persuade
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have 
persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as 
he is scared, and then he is gone. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 



Privileges
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953 

Segregation
These are not bad people.  All they are concerned about is to 
see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in 
school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.
President Eisenhower

Sin
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and
in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal
and achieve it merely by law."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General

Television
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to 
sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their 
television screens. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

Thoughts
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence 
that they ever existed. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953 

Win
When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to 
the very last minute - a chance to lose it. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, 
a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend 
to that one objective. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957 

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