Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting: a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

We may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Let us not be guilty of maudlin sympathy for the criminal who, roaming the streets with switchblade knife and illegal firearms seeking a helpless prey, suddenly becomes, upon apprehension, a poor, underprivileged person who counts upon the compassion of our society and the laxness or weakness of too many courts to forgive his offense.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

War settles nothing.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower