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
And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. — 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
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. — 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
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
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
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
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
In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security… — 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
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
When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military… — 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
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from… — 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
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our… — 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
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
A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his… — 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
