649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.

Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it’s worthless.

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don’t swallow it.

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro’s government go on.

You can’t have this kind of war. There just aren’t enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

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

If our founding fathers were alive today, they’d roll over in their graves.

We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make – we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.