Dwight D. Eisenhower

(October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. He was the last U.S. President to have been born in the 19th century.

“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”  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

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.” Dwight D. Eisenhower