Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.”

“You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.”

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

“When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.”

“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”

“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”

“Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.”

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

“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.”

“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”

“Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.”

“Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?”

“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”

“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”

“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”

“Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.”

“Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.”

“I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.”

“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”

“The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.”