Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhowerwas an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth14 October 1890
CountryUnited States of America
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.
We merely want to live in peace with all the world...
Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.
Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?
We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog
Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers,
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions