Quotes by Dwight David Eisenhower

“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice - their choice”

“The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.”

“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

“I have never known any distress that an hours reading did not relieve.”

“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs”

“Pessimism never won any battle.”

“The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.”

“Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.”

“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.”

“Why did we drop that god darn thing?”

“I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of emergency is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.”

“We are proud because from the beginning of this nation man can walk upright no matter who he is or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend or his enemy... And he does not fear that, because that enemy may be in a position of great power... that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot here without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the Habeas Corpus Act and we respect it.”