President Dwight Eisenhower understood that leading America is more than just an exercise in economics.

In order to solve our financial challenges, we must first accept the importance of a moral foundation.

A couple quotes from him serve as a reminder that life and government is about more than just numbers.

“Today there is a great ideological struggle going on in the world. One side upholds what it calls the materialistic dialectic. Denying the existence of spiritual values, it maintains that man responds only to materialistic influences and consequently he is nothing. He is an educated animal and is useful only as he serves the ambitions — desires — of a ruling clique; though they try to make this finer-sounding than that, because they say their dictatorship is that of the proletariat, meaning that they rule in the people’s name — for the people. Now, on our side, we recognize right away that man is not merely an animal, that his life and his ambitions have at the bottom a foundation of spiritual values.”

“Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.”