Quote #43
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.
More from Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
- If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
- Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Being shot at focuses the mind wonderfully.
- May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.