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."
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
"When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it."
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
