Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"In all that the people can individually do for themselves, government ought not to interfere."

"General, we have got ourselves in a funny fix."

"Certainly it is that whatever we help to do engages our attention and our interest more deeply than those things that seem to us to be free and to come without effort."

"And I want to pledge, here and now, that this kind of effort will have the support of the Federal Government as long as I am connected with it."