Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

“In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?”

“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”

“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”

“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”

“The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.”

“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”

“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”

“War settles nothing.”

“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”

“Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”

“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”

“If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.”

“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”

“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”

“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”

“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”