Dwight Eisenhower

Quote: Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: 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]

Quote: History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: 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]

Quote: Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: 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]

Quote: We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: 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]

Quote: 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]

Quote: The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: 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]

Quote: Plans are nothing; planning is everything. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: Pessimism never won any battle. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. [Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote: The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. [Dwight Eisenhower]

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