Dwight D. Eisenhower

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

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 most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

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

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