Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Profession : President

Birth : October 14, 1890

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. 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 D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The 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.

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

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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 D. Eisenhower

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither a wise man 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. Eisenhower

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower