Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops.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.

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

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.

Steady, Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.

The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America's strength.

I thought so at first, but there is reason to believe that he is still alive. But that in itself does not constitute a problem.

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

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of the summer afternoon on a river bank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

The proudest human that walks the earth is a free American citizen.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.