Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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• I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
• ... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There…
• We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend…
• Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future…
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
• Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
• You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
• 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…
• This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're…
• When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above…
• I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck!…
• During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit,…
• No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and…
• Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely
• How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.
• Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
• Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
• Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the…
• This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of…
• Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many…

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