Quotes by
Dwight Eisenhower |
1890-1969 , American general & President
Eisenhower, also widely known by his nickname Ike, was an American soldier and politician. He served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, and was later elected the 34th President of the United States of America. more info:
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Quotations
| • | Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. 21 |
| • | Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote. 10 |
| • | 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. 8 |
| • | The only way to win World War III is to prevent it. 8 |
| • | If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. 7 |
| • | A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. 7 |
| • | Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. 7 |
| • | Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex. 7 |
| • | Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like. 7 |
| • | The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others. 6 |
| • | An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. 6 |
| • | 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. 5 |
| • | I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others. 5 |
| • | The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. 5 |
| • | Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. 5 |
| • | Plans are nothing; planning is everything. 5 |
| • | There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. 5 |
| • | All generalizations are false, including this one. (attributed also to Marc Twain and others) 5 |
| • | Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos. 4 |
| • | We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. 4 |
| • | The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. 4 |
| • | Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. 4 |
| • | Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. 4 |
| • | Unless we progress, we regress. 4 |
| • | Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. 4 |
| • | In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. 4 |
| • | Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. 4 |
| • | There is one thing about being President: nobody can tell you when to sit down. 3 |
| • | You just can't have this kind of war. There aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets. (speaking about nuclear war) 3 |
| • | I believe as long as we allow conditions to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-class citizens. 3 |
| • | Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent. 3 |
| • | Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it. 3 |
| • | The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. 3 |
| • | Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use. 3 |
