Author Topic: ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes ~ (Read 4542 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:28:04 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:28:28 AM »

There is one thing about being President no one can tell you when to sit down.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:28:55 AM »

Politics is a profession; a serious complicated and in its true sense a noble one.

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:29:18 AM »

You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault not leadership.

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:29:45 AM »

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:30:16 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:30:40 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:31:06 AM »

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:31:30 AM »

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:31:53 AM »

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:32:18 AM »

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:32:44 AM »

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership of getting along with people of getting things done.

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:33:08 AM »

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:33:32 AM »

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** May 21, 2014, 08:33:58 AM »

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were to the very last minute a chance to lose it.

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