Did Dwight Eisenhower say "Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America"? [closed]

Question

“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.”

The quote above is attributed to Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States. However, I can't find where the quote comes from, such as a speech or a book. I've tried searching the quote, but all I could find were websites sharing quotes or people quoting it, the latter only stating the quote is from Eisenhower and not when or where he said it.

Answer 1

The quotation is from Eisenhower's "An Open Letter to America's Students" published in the October 1948 issue of Reader’s Digest. Eisenhower was then President of Columbia University.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 143,000,000 followers, it will no longer be America. Truly American leadership is not of any one man. It is of multitudes of men—and women.