Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We must be strong at home if we are going to be strong abroad. We understand that. So we want to be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general… They win battles, and they make me lucky. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
