Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quotes

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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