Eisenhower, Dwight D.

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

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

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

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

"Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains."

"Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal."

"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." - speech (farewell address, 1961)