Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“Pessimism never won any battle.”
“Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
“You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.”
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.”
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.”
“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.”
“Pessimism never won any battle.”
“You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.”
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military–industrial complex.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
“The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.”