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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower