Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."

"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

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

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president."

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."

"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."

"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."

"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."

"The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them."

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

"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."

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

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

"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."