Famous Quotes

Quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower

• 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.
• The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
• 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.
• There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
• There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
• There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
• Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
• 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.
• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
• War settles nothing.
• We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
• We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
• What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
• 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.
• 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.
• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.