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
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
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
Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless — 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 would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky. — 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
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
It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function… — 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
With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for… — 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
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
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
