Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The future of this world is in the hands of those who can dream dreams of this world being a better place."

"The most damning indictment of our educational system is not that Johnny can't read, but that Johnny doesn't want to read."

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head."

"War is the most terrible failure of human reason."

"If you want to get a good constructive program for a nation, you've got to emphasize education."

"This is as true of a nation as of an individual, that the greatest forces are spiritual forces."

"Civilization requires not only knowledge but also ideals of character."

"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are treating you right."

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow too."

"We have confused the free with the free and easy."

"The only thing America has to fear is fear itself."

"Science and science alone can do the former and the latter."

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

"The weight of this responsibility is not mine alone."

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

"Any nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on behalf of its citizens."

"The purpose of all our schools is to develop in each boy and girl the skills and understanding and ideals needed."

"You've got to believe you can do it. If you don't, you can't."

"Knowledge, of course, is the infinite regress of deductions."

"The great tradition of parliamentary democracy has never collapsed in Britain."

"I believe it is important that this nation guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex."

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

"Sweating blood in training is better than bleeding in combat."

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

"The future will either vindicate or condemn us based on how we handle today's opportunities and challenges."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger."

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

"Certain things in life must never be compromised."

"The final battle against his real enemies is fought out in the hearts and minds of men."

"The purpose of alliances is strength, not alignment for its own sake."