Dwight Eisenhower
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles away.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
We have heard much of the phrase, "peace and friendship." This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, "peace and friendship, in freedom." This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration, and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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