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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

—  Dwight David Eisenhower

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

—  Dwight David 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 David Eisenhower

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

—  Dwight David Eisenhower

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionist and rebel men and women who dare to disssent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

—  Dwight David Eisenhower

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

—  Dwight David 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.

—  Dwight David Eisenhower

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

—  Dwight David Eisenhower

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

—  Dwight David Eisenhower

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human Being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

—  Dwight David Eisenhower