"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."

"Ike's got a big grin, but there's a lot of steel behind it."

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

"I'm not a man given to making rash decisions. I think things through carefully."