Dwight 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.

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

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

The world is not going to be saved by a bunch of smart people. It's going to be saved by a bunch of good people.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice.

I have only one ambition, and that is to be President of the United States.

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

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

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what is right.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free society.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

I am not one of those who believes that we can solve all the problems of the world by waving a magic wand.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

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.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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.

There is no glory in battle, only death and destruction.

The American way of life is based on the conviction that a man has the right to achieve as much as he can, limited only by his ability and his willingness to work.