This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.
Letter to Vernon Prichard on August 27, 1942. "The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower". Book edited by Alfred Dupont Chandler, p. 505, 1970.