Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

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

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

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

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

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

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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

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

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

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

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.

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

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