Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.

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

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

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.

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.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

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.

If you want total security go to prison. There youre fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.

Worry is a word that I dont allow myself to use.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

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.

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.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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 mans intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

War settles nothing.