The Supreme Commander Quotes

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― Stephen E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Montgomery felt somewhat the same way about Eisenhower as Haig had about Foch twenty-six years earlier.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower

“He felt that morale was “the most highly important of any military attribute.” It could never be obtained through pampering the men or lowering the standards of discipline to permit easier living, but rather through self-respect, intensive training, and adequate leadership.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Then Marshall leaned forward—Eisenhower recalled years later that he had “an eye that seemed to me awfully cold”—and declared, “Eisenhower, the Department is filled with able men who analyze their problems well but feel compelled always to bring them to me for final solution. I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they have done.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower

“On the third, when Lieutenant General Alexander M. Patch, commanding the U. S. Seventh Army, issued the orders for the withdrawal from Strasbourg, the French military governor of the city said he would not undertake such action without direct orders from De Gaulle.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Under the circumstances, “a sense of humor and a great faith, or else a complete lack of imagination, are essential to sanity.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower

“To a certain extent,” he explained, “a man must merely believe in his luck and figure that a certain amount of good fortune will bless us when the critical day arrives.”30 Throughout the war Eisenhower trusted in his luck along with his preparations, and it never failed him.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower