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Famous Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.”
“In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”
“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.”
Source: Crusade in Europe
“Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.”
“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”
“We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.”
“Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”
“The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
“When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
“The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.”
“Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
“Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961