Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Don'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… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image