"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history." ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Topic(s): History Tags: never, things More From Dwight D. Eisenhower "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." "Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow." "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." More In History "We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."― Lord Byron "You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."― William Butler Yeats "I haven’t, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order – not one."― Oliver North