Dwight Eisenhower Quotes

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower”
― Hourly History, Dwight Eisenhower: A Life from Beginning to End

“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 not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower”
― Hourly History, Dwight Eisenhower: A Life from Beginning to End

“Eisenhower was aware that the rest of the world was avidly watching as the United States, which regarded itself as the beacon of light for democracy and freedom, came to recognize the double standard that allowed two races to operate on such opposite standards of equality.”
― Hourly History, Dwight Eisenhower: A Life from Beginning to End

“As the interest in seeing Eisenhower as a political candidate continued to mount, Eisenhower scoffed at the idea that he had interest in any political office, whether it was a “political post from dogcatcher to Grand High Supreme King of the Universe.”
― Hourly History, Dwight Eisenhower: A Life from Beginning to End