Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

American president

Lived from: 1890 - 1969

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 14 october 1890 Died: 28 march 1969

  • Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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  • Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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  • Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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  • An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
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  • An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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  • Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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  • Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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  • 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.
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  • History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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  • 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.
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  • I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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  • I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]
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  • I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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  • I 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.
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  • I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
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  • If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
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  • In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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  • May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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  • Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower?

The two most famous quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower are:

  • "Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
  • "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

When did Dwight D. Eisenhower live?

Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in 1890 and died in the year 1969.