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.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
The Chance for Peace (1953)
- Guns
- War & Peace
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.
Speech in Ottawa (10 January 1946), published in Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels
- War & Peace
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- War & Peace
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
- Politics
- War & Peace
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
- America
- War & Peace
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
- Justice
- War & Peace
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be temped to risk his own destruction.
Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961)
- War & Peace
When you appeal to force, there’s one thing you must never do⁠—lose.
- War & Peace
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- War & Peace
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- War & Peace
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.
Atoms for Peace (1953)
- War & Peace
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
- War & Peace
Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.
- War & Peace
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan (31 August 1959)
- War & Peace
The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
Radio and TV Address
- War & Peace

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