Dwight D. Eisenhower People Quotations

Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve

The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

The true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed, ... My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw.

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (31 August 1959)