Quote #30

In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.

More from Dwight D. Eisenhower

  1. Peace and Justice are two sides of the same coin.
  2. The United States never lost a soldier or a foot of ground in my administration. We kept the peace. People asked how it happened - by God, …
  3. I voiced to him [Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated an…
  4. Our landings have failed and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information av…
  5. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-…
  6. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.
  7. I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want …
  8. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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