“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
– 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
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.”
– Dwight D. 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 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
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
– 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
“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
“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
– Dwight D. 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 D. Eisenhower