Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

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  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

  Life, Change, Wise

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Hate

  Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Men, History

  Address at the Hunt Armory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 09, 1956.

• This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Morning, Clever, Men

  Letter to Vernon Prichard on August 27, 1942. "The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower". Book edited by Alfred Dupont Chandler, p. 505, 1970.

• You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hurt, Russia, History

• Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Farewell

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Jobs, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.331, Best Books on

• Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Change, History, Political

• Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Real, Mean, Men

  Speech at Guildhall, London, on June 12, 1945. "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1967.

• I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sacrifice, Blood, History

• You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Weather, History, Historical

• One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Powerful, Men, Order

• Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, History, Mad

• The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Running, Race, History

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.776, Best Books on

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