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.

Quote by Dwight D Eisenhower

Topics: Dwight D Eisenhower Quotes

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it...

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it...

Only Americans can hurt America.

Only Americans can hurt America.

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

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

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the...

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the...

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

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

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which...

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which...

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

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

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

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

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend...

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend...

Pessimism never won any battle.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life...

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life...

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and...

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and...

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels...

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels...

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone...

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone...

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history...

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history...

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right...

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right...

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake...

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake...

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a...

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a...

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor...

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor...