I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower