Dwight 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.

More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed with all the instruments of modern science, he is still assured personal freedom and wide avenues of expression so that he may win for himself, his family and his country greater material comfort, ease and happiness; greater spiritual satisfaction and contentment.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal of conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

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

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

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

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.