Dwight David Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower was an American soldier and politician. He served as Supreme Commander, Allied forces in Europe during World War II, and was later elected the 34th President of the United States. He was also known by his nickname "Ike".
Found 30 thoughts of Dwight David Eisenhower
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
Dwight David Eisenhower
I 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 David 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 David Eisenhower
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight David Eisenhower
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
Dwight David Eisenhower
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight David Eisenhower
Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, 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 David Eisenhower
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight David Eisenhower
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight David Eisenhower
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.
Dwight David 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 David 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 David Eisenhower
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight David Eisenhower
