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 D. EISENHOWERNeither 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 D. EISENHOWERWe seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERFreedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIt is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPreventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPessimism never won any battle.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERShot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERTrue delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIn preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERGet it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER