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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way… — 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
You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. — 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
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
“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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
