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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much… — 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
... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis… — 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
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
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
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
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
Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy. — 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
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
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
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
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. — 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
In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. — 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
“The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely — 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
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, 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
