Quote #55

God help any man who sits behind this desk who doesn't know the military like I do.

More from Dwight D. Eisenhower

  1. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -- it's the size of the fight in the dog.
  2. Like the export of the Spanish Inquisition, the American Inquisition too has been taken to the far flung corners of the earth.[1]
  3. In his case, there seems to be no final answer to the question, 'How stupid can you get?'
  4. This operation is being planned as a success, We can not afford to fail.
  5. Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
  6. I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court.
  7. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
  8. The hand of aggression is stayed by force alone.

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