Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

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

...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.