649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America’s real message to the rest of the world.

The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it.

America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.

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.

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.

Take your job seriously, but not yourself.

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.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can’t get.