It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. EisenhowerPull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIn this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.
Dwight D. EisenhowerYou don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. EisenhowerAnd they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.
Dwight D. Eisenhower