Dwight David Eisenhower

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

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. - from his Inaugural address 1/20/53

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield.- from an address at Peoria, IL 9/25/56

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. - 3/17/54

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.

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.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law. - from an address on the first observance of Law Day, 5/5/58

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

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. - from his State of the Union address 1/12/61

Każde działo wyprodukowane, każdy okręt wojenny wysłany na morze, każda rakieta wystrzelona, oznacza w ostatecznym sensie kradzież od tych, którzy głodują i nie są karmieni, tych, którzy cierpią zimno i nie są ubrani.

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.

The sergeant is the Army.

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

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

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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

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

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows"

Przywództwo to sztuka nakłaniania kogoś innego do zrobienia czegoś, co chcesz zrobić, ponieważ chce to zrobić.

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

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one which he has had some fun,some joy,some real satisfaction,that day is a loss

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. from his farewell address, January 17th, 1961