Quotes from 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.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.