Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Prices have reached what looks like a permanent plateau."

"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

"A man is no better than his word."

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

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

"I believe it is important that we use American military strength to promote peace, not to promote war."

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

"I love this job."

"You'll be evaluated by how well you can adapt to changing circumstances."

"A friendship based solely on agreement is not very deep."

"The clearest way our modesty is manifested is in our lives."

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making the case."

"Once a man allows himself to be made a fool of, he cannot hold his position of respect."

"Americans, indeed all free peoples, will always debate and discuss these big issues. It is part of being free."

"Where there is moral power, there is quiet power."

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

"I shall return to private life happy in the knowledge that the nation will be safe and secure."

"When you appeal to the highest level of thinking, you get people's best effort."

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

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity."

"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking for the opinion of people who probably don't know."

"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed."

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat."

"Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life."

"Soldiers, when on duty, are not to eat, drink, smoke, or read."

"The problem is not going to be solved unless it is resolved in a spirit of tolerance and wisdom."

"Training and loyalty are the basic essentials of discipline."

"Never underestimate the power of political or religious feeling."

"The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions."