If you want total security, go to prison... by Dwight D. Eisenhower | We Heart Quotes

President World War II Cold War Republican Party general

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.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Other quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Day

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing People

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Doctrine Women May Men

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.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace Want World People

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.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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