Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

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

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

"The future of this world hinges on the faith in the soundness of free society."

"I have one yardstick by which I measure all great religions—'by their fruits ye shall know them.''"

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

"A man is only as good as his word."

"The only way to win World War III is to prevent it."

"Don't think, but let instinct and research do the thinking."

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield."

"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."

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

"Beware the military-industrial complex."

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership."

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

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are sick."

"Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on."

"We must be willing to pay a fair price for freedom."

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

"The world has never seen a greater aspiration than freedom."

"Pessimism never won any battle."

"The most difficult thing in life is making a choice."

"Every society needs a code of laws in which confidence can be placed."

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom."

"Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are bound to happen."

"Time is a very precious thing. There is never enough of it."

"Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination."

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