About Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supreme Allied Commander in World War II and 34th U.S. President. (1890-1969)

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More from Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.Speech to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference (1957), repeating an Army saying
• What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast (1958)
• By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.As quoted in The Federal Career Service: A Look Ahead (1954)
• Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.Guildhall Address, London (1945)
• May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.Address at the Columbia University National Bicentennial Dinner (1954)
• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice, their choice.Address in Pittsburgh (1956)

More quotes on change

• I'm asking you to believe in yourselves. I'm asking you to stop settling for the world as it is, and to help us make the world as it should be.Michelle Obama
• The biggest, most dramatic change happens incrementally, little by little, through compromises and adjustments over years and decades.Michelle Obama
• Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.Winston Churchill
• To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.Winston Churchill
• Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.Mahatma Gandhi

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