A biography for Dwight D. Eisenhowerhasn’t been written yet.
“The sergeant is the Army.”
“This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.”
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
“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.”
“Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”
“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
“Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.”
“There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.”
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
“shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.”
“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”
“Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.”
“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”
“I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.”
“Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.”
“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.”
“The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.”