Dwight Eisenhower quotes Born: 10/14/1890 Died: 03/28/1969 Country: usa

• Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Plans are nothing; planning is everything. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Pessimism never won any battle. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• There is no victory at bargain basement prices. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Every gun that is fired, 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. The 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. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. (Dwight Eisenhower)
• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. (Dwight Eisenhower)

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