Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

You need to respect the rules; they are the same for everybody.

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The only thing I command is respect.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Well, I’ll be darned. When you put on a uniform there are certain inhibitions which you accept.

I have no need of learned men. I want faithful subjects. Be such: that is your duty.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.