Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when you are going to be affected by the decree you may have just brought down on somebody else."

"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do—lose."

"A people that produces soft music, mediocrities, and the lack of conviction cannot survive."

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

"I believe that peace is the only battle worth waging."

"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex."

"Any nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do, not with its military forces, but with its moral and political conviction."

"The American people expect that of their President. That he will have the wisdom to know what is right, but also the courage to do it."

"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have never thought that a war could be won by force of arms alone."

"I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty."

"Every moment lost now is a moment lost forever. We cannot bring back the dead."

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

"The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity."

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

"You have to believe in the future even if you can't see it coming."

"The very, very best leadership advice I ever received was from my father, who always said to me: 'Ike, make friends before you make enemies.'"

"Know what you know. Know what you don't know. And know the difference."

"We are not retreating; we are advancing in another direction."

"The hand of the government should be seen only to the point that it is needed to defend the liberty of its people."

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership of getting along with people, of getting things done."

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never."

"Motivation must include an idea or goal strong enough to sustain desire."

"We are not here to spend money but to do the people's business."

"Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind."

"No amount of military force can ever do what moral and spiritual force can do."

"A citizen should render the state everything he can in time of need."

"These men who get so deeply immersed in their professional secrets that they really cannot talk cogently to anyone else."

"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."