Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About History
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
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One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.
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You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.
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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .
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Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.
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Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
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This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.
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You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?
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I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Born: October 14, 1890
- Died: March 28, 1969
- Occupation: 34th U.S. President
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