649 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom’s enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people’s surest strength.

My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, ‘Oh, please let me swing slowly.’ The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity – if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

War settles nothing.

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

???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.?

Plans are nothing planning is everything.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought—not in the chambers of any legislature—but in the hearts of men.