Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHumility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERSo the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERMay we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWhat is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERShot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERStatesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERDon’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWhat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThey may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER