Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

My own recommendation, then as always, was that no operations should be undertaken in the Mediterranean except as a directly supporting move for the Channel attack and that our planned redeployment to England should proceed with all possible speed. Obviously a sufficient strength had to be kept in the Mediterranean to hold what we had already gained and to force the Nazis to maintain sizable forces in that area.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

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

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.