Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

“The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.”

“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.”

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”

“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 ha...”

“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”

“Only Americans can hurt America.”

“Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.”

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

“When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.”

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

“I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.”

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

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

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

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

“The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.”

“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

“I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.”

“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”