Dwight Eisenhower quotes

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

— Dwight Eisenhower

“We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

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

— Dwight Eisenhower

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

— Dwight Eisenhower

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

— Dwight Eisenhower

“The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“War settles nothing.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

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

— Dwight Eisenhower

“It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“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 Eisenhower

“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”

— Dwight Eisenhower