Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"Luck is a dividend of sweat."

"Beware the temptation to complacency."

"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free."

"The only thing that could be worse than one nation having the atomic bomb was many nations having atomic bombs."

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

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

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a casualty officer."

"I believe it is important that we use words cautiously and carefully, almost reverently, when we speak of this awesome power."

"Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"The proudest thing I can claim is that I have never been a calculating man."

"Pessimism never won any battle."

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

"The search for a scapegoat is the easiest way to solve a problem."

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

"Life is nothing without friendship."

"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

"Only Americans can hurt America."

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

"I have one yardstick by which I measure every man, woman, and child that comes to work in my office: Are they trying to do the best job they can do?"

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

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

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

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

"The future will either vindicate us or condemn us, depending on whether we use power without wisdom or wisdom without power."

"Beware the military-industrial complex."

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."

"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."

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