Dwight Eisenhower

The sergeant is the Army.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

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.

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.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

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. War settles nothing.

When you are in any contest,you should work as if there were-to the very last minute-a chance to lose it. This is battle,This is politics,This is anything.

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

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