Dwight D. Eisenhower

“There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.”

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

“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.”

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

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

“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.”

“In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.”

“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 her...”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be...”

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

“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......”

“Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”