Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.
Dwight D. EisenhowerA good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.
Dwight D. EisenhowerYou will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIn the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
Dwight D. EisenhowerYou 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.
Dwight D. EisenhowerPeople talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower