When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]. — 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
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
No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one. — 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
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
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
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
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all… — 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
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the… — 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
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
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
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
“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
In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions… — 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
The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures. — 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
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — 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 and are… — 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 cease our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
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 Image
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image