Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Military, Men

  Letter to Everett E. ("Swede") Hazlett, as quoted in "Eisenhower the President" (1981) by William Bragg Ewald, Jr., p. 248, August 20, 1956.

• The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Integrity, Character, Men

• By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Presidential, Understanding, May

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.531, Best Books on

• Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Understanding, Agents, Temples

• A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Race, Understanding, Honest

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

• A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Teacher, Teaching, Understanding

• When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Race, Understanding

• It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Travel, Differences, America

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.619, Best Books on

• There is very little that our government or any government can do to plant the seeds of international understanding in the hearts and minds of people around the world. If people by the millions can reach out their hands in friendship and communicate directly warmth, personal interest and respect, it will be a real beginning in the struggle for a peaceful world.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Real, Struggle, Heart

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