General Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890–1969
Amerikansk
General og den 34. Presidenten i USA
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"When you put
on a uniform there are certain inhibitions that you accept."
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
(34th president of USA (1953-1961)
"What
counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size
of the fight in the dog"
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1958. Republican National
Convention
"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."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"From
behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and
reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"History
does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"I
hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its
brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"I
deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey
the orders of constituted courts."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"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."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"If
the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by
using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and
our best hope of establishing a world order."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"Leadership
is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he
wants to do it."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"Speeches
are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except
six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library
at Abilene."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"The
sergeant is the Army."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"There
is no victory at bargain basement prices."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"You
don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"In this war,
which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in
military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the develoment
of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon." "The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and
prayers of
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
- General Dwight D Eisenhower, address to his troops D-Day 1944
"Without a
doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our
military arsenal."
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one
who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness,
consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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