Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”

“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”

“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.”

“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!”

“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”

“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”

“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”

“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”

“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.”

“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”

“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”