Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.