Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) was the thirty-fourth U.S. President, a Republican, serving from 1953 to 1961. During World War II he served as General of the Army and Supreme Allied Commander, leading the allies to victory in Europe.

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.

The Chance for Peace

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

You must practice simplicity and humility, for those are the virtues which achieve everything. You must say: ‘Fiat voluntas tua.’

Teresa of Ávila

One man may prefer a routine job with much time off for basking in the sun to a more exacting job paying a higher salary; another man may prefer the opposite. If both were paid equally in money, their incomes in a more fundamental sense would be unequal.

Milton Friedman

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don’t.

Mignon McLaughlin

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness, which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be, liberty.

Fisher Ames

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does.

Milton Friedman

Often the most convincing moralists are the very ones who feel the temptation to sin most strongly. . . . Very few, if any, great men or women are pure of heart, but inner torment and even a touch of wickedness can be catalysts to greatness.

Evan Thomas

We ought to be extremely cautious in this country. If ever the government be changed, it will probably be into a despotism.

William Grayson

We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.

John Gardner

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle, the sheet-anchor of American republicanism.

Abraham Lincoln

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

Mignon McLaughlin

Trying to manage from the top down, when the bottom is out of control, may be the least effective approach.

David Allen

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church, for if faith is so important to our salvation I will seek it where true faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God himself.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

The knowledge of the truth, considered in itself, is a desirable thing.

Thomas Aquinas

In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

George Washington

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, [intelligence] is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

But no one shall be dragged to them by the hair, or kept from them by force, for I can drive no man to heaven with a club.

Martin Luther

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

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