Eisenhower Quotes

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

We must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Limited war is a barbarism. Wherever men are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at some time or another – be held accountable for its acts.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right or left, are in the gutters.

Eisenhower Quotes part 2

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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 their way and let them have it.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.

To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

We must be willing to make the hard choices, the ones that require deep sacrifice and selflessness, because those are the choices that shape the world.

The supreme quality for excellence is undeniably perseverance.

War settles nothing. To win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Never let an opportunity pass to comment on the weather or discuss a puppy.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

The supreme quality for leadership is integrity.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Things are more like today than they have ever been before.

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

Here in America, we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.

Only through consultation, cooperation, and agreement among the nations can we effectively address the causes and symptoms of conflict and human suffering.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.