The quotations of

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President of the United States from 1953 to 1961

1890–1969

71 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Politics and Freedom. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
D-Day Order (1944)
- War & Peace
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!
D-Day Order (1944)
- Freedom
- War & Peace
God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
The Chance for Peace (1953)
- God
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Letter to his brother Edgar Newton Eisenhower (8 November 1954)
- Government
- Politics
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961)
- Liberty
- War & Peace
A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today.
News Conference of (11 August 1954)
- War & Peace
As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so⁠—we believe⁠—there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.
Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
- Justice
- Laws
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
Dwight Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address (1953)
- Science
- War & Peace
The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.
Atoms for Peace (1953)
- War & Peace
Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.
Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961)
- America
- War & Peace
We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country.
Letter to Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (June 6, 1953)
- America
- Justice

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