Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple – this single – this exclusive goal.

Dwight D. Eisenhower