Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. Dwight D. Eisenhower More Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower More Quotes From Dwight D. Eisenhower Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be. Dwight D. Eisenhower religiousgodbible It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you. Dwight D. Eisenhower team-buildingteamworkpeople Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower abilitydone No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty. Dwight D. Eisenhower strugglecharactermen We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. Dwight D. Eisenhower learningwarpeace 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 militarywarpeace Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination. Dwight D. Eisenhower new-yearmotivationalinspirational Plans are nothing; planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower statisticsmilitaryinspiring Pessimism never won any battle. Dwight D. Eisenhower optimisticsuccessattitude Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like. Dwight D. Eisenhower motivationalinspirationallife The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. Dwight D. Eisenhower integritycharactermen People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. Dwight D. Eisenhower guttersblack-and-whitepeople A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. Dwight D. Eisenhower citieswarlying If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose. Dwight D. Eisenhower teachingintegritymen Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote. Dwight D. Eisenhower voterspoliticianyears If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves. Dwight D. Eisenhower live-for-todayalivefather I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower runningpeacebelieve May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Dwight D. Eisenhower militarywarpeace Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. Dwight D. Eisenhower freedomrightsexercise Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower motivationnatureleadership
