Eisenhower Rhetorical Analysis
In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.[->0]”
Joseph Grimond quotes[->1]
Dwight Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
George Patton
Live for something rather than die for nothing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep …show more content…
When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril."
- Sun Tzu ("Art of War")
"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
- George Washington
"On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens."
- Oliver Cromwell's Soldiers ("Humble Representation")
"I make war on the living, not the dead."
- Charles V (when advised to hang Martin Luther's corpse on the gallows)
""It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, And chuck him out the brute,
But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before!
The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted."
- Rudyard Kipling
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
- Calvin Coolidge
He Who Hesitates Has Already Lost the Battle
"Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of War."
- William Shakespeare ("Julius
Joseph Grimond quotes[->1]
Dwight Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
George Patton
Live for something rather than die for nothing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep …show more content…
When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril."
- Sun Tzu ("Art of War")
"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
- George Washington
"On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens."
- Oliver Cromwell's Soldiers ("Humble Representation")
"I make war on the living, not the dead."
- Charles V (when advised to hang Martin Luther's corpse on the gallows)
""It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, And chuck him out the brute,
But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before!
The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted."
- Rudyard Kipling
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
- Calvin Coolidge
He Who Hesitates Has Already Lost the Battle
"Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of War."
- William Shakespeare ("Julius