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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 problem to a manageable proportion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight D. Eisenhower