Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If the new boss is the same as the old boss, nothing has changed."

"Without traditions, art cannot flourish."

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

"There is no security on earth, only opportunity."

"The beauty of American democracy is its freedom; the risk is mob rule."

"A sense of humor is an asset in any vocation."

"We must create a peaceful world or perish in a warless one."

"You cannot invent on a blackboard."

"The question is not whether we can afford to spend money for such purposes. The question is whether we can afford not to."

"War settles nothing."

"Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are bound to happen."

"A man cannot just passively accept his condition; he must do everything within his power to change it."

"The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty."

"Communism with us in one hand and faith in the other. What does that mean? To me it means we must be strong enough to defend ourselves."

"The opportunity to occupy a position of high trust comes rarely. It is therefore a sacred duty to perform faithfully."

"From my old associate, the Bible, I have learned that the meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."

"We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose."

"The human race has never invented a weapon it hasn't eventually used."

"Science and education make the future, not politics or military hardware."

"There is a long struggle before us, and we must work together."

"The only weakness in democracy is the voter."

"We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments are going to have to get out of the way and let them have it."

"A war is a catastrophe. Once started, nobody knows where it will end."

"Time is a daily newspaper; if you don't read it today, you will be illiterate tomorrow."

"Inspiration is needed in politics just as much as in poetry."

"To know where you are, you must know where you have been."

"The one thing I dislike about war is the casualties of war."

"We must be ready to defend ourselves, but defense is not enough."

"Accomplishment comes through ambition, not luck."