Eisenhower Quotes

“The pilot, Francis Gary Powers, had been issued a suicide pill, but he was also provided with a parachute and he used it.”
― Paul Johnson, Eisenhower: A Life

“To be an American citizen is one of the world’s great prizes.”
― Paul Johnson, Eisenhower: A Life

“A man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows.”
― Paul Johnson, Eisenhower: A Life

“Ike never needlessly grudged time for a photo session, but he did insist that meetings with individual academics should have a specific and useful purpose. He did on one occasion observe that his academic colleagues tended “to need more time to come to the point than people in the Army,” and he went on the record with this definition of an intellectual: “A man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows.”
― Paul Johnson, Eisenhower: A Life