Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower (American Head of State)

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969,) nicknamed Ike, was an American military general and political leader. He served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II 1943–45 and as the 34th president of the U.S. 1953–61. His standing rests just as much on his achievements as a military leader as on his successes as president.

Born in Denison, Texas, Eisenhower attended the United States Military Academy (West Point) and had a thriving career in the U.S. Army. His strategic decisions and political acumen played a pivotal role in the conclusion in World War II. He directed the Allied invasion of German-occupied France on “D-Day,” June 6, 1944. The successful landings in Normandy were the start of the final campaign of World War II.

After the war, Eisenhower became the first Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and led the military arm of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO.) His immense popularity as the most successful military general won him a landslide victory as president in 1952, and got him reelected in 1956; he defeated Democratic-party candidate Adlai Stevenson in both those presidential elections.

As president, Eisenhower presided over eight years of peace and prosperity. He adopted a hard line toward communism in both his domestic and foreign policy, brokered the peace agreement to end the Korean War, and established the Interstate Highway System.

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Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: America

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice—their choice.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Decisions, History, Chance

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Battle

I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Politics

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience… We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications… In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Government, Power

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Humor

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels—men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: America

Should a nation which attacks and occupies foreign territory in the face of United Nations disapproval be allowed to impose conditions on its own withdrawal?
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don’t swallow it.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Praise

I’ll tell you what leadership is. It’s persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Passion, Accomplishment, Enthusiasm, America, Greatness & Great Things

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
Topics: Achievement

The emergence of this new world poses a vital issue: will outer space be preserved for peaceful use and developed for the benefit of all mankind? Or will it become another focus for the arms raceand thus an area of dangerous and sterile competition? The choice is urgent. And it is ours to make. The nations of the world have recently united in declaring the continent of Antarctica off limits to military preparations. We could extend this principle to an even more important sphere. National vested interests have not yet been developed in space or in celestial bodies. Barriers to agreement are now lower than they will ever be again.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: America

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Freedom

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Planning

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

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.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: World

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Freedom, Independence

I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: General

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Desire, Desires

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chains.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Americans

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation more than its wealth
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Spirituality, Spirit

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Aging, Age

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Weakness, Freedom

Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Action, Failure, Pessimism, Cynicism

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Greatness & Great Things, Quality

It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels … or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man’s destiny.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topics: Man

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