Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people…This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Independence Day: 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

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Never waste a minute thinking about anyone you dislike."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you."

- 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

"The supreme quality of leadership is integrity."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Leadership refers to the art of convincing someone else to do what you want, because he is motivated to."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Leadership requires respect and inspiration, not physical aggression."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Independence Day: 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

"But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights -- by attempting to placate aggression."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free men."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

""In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.""

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Here in America we are descended from revolutionists and rebels—men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower