Dwight D. Eisenhower

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is what I found out about religion: it gives you the courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher power. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.  - Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories… And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days. - Dwight D. Eisenhower