Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish; push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."

"Character is destiny."

"The only way to win is to go forward with complete confidence in the rightness of your cause."

"A person who makes no mistakes does not try new things."

"Accomplishment is the product of labor and thought."

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

"An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame game and doesn't care who wins."

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

"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head. Any damn fool can do that, but it's usually called 'assault.'"

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

"The final battle against intolerance is to be fought in the schoolhouse."

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

"Waging peace is far more difficult than waging war."

"The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when you are going to be surprised by the people."

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

"All of the Indian nations should be absorbed into American society."

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

"The truly outstanding thing about middle age is that it's when you stop complaining that you can't do things anymore and start enjoying not doing them."

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

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

"The future of this world may well depend upon how well we understand and act upon the simple principles of religion."

"A man of great common sense and good taste—meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

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

"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

"I would rather try something and fail than try nothing and succeed."

"Beware the military-industrial complex."

"We recognize and accept our share of God's purpose for this world, and our generation's role in fulfilling that purpose."

"The future will either be green or not at all."