Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

The sergeant is the Army.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

War settles nothing.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

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

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

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

The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

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

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

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