Ask500

Total security doesn't exist anywhere. In prison you can still be attacked, killed or raped by your fellow inmates. But some people will give up just about all their freedoms (or take away other's freedoms) in pursuit of perceived "security".

I don't think that was one of Eisenhower's best quotes. I do think there is no such thing as "total security".

Let's take a little closer look at Ike's ideas:

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. "

He was pretty good old guy.