Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

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

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.