Dwight D. Eisenhower

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — its the size of the fight in the dog."

"Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos."

"This we do know: a world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day."

"Im going to command the whole shebang."

"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone."

"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends."

"This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered."

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity."

"Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law."

"War is mankinds most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington — not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict."

"There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."

"Steady, Monty. You cant speak to me like that. Im your boss."