"The cost of one modern heavy bomber is……" — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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338 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
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... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for…
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and…
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Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief…
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience,…
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This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way…
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When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the…
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I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less…
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During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their…
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People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the…
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people…
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Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters,…
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We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going…
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Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or…
— Howard Zinn
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Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the…
— Edward Abbey
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Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your…
— John Mica
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Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call…
— Hermann Goring
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I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power…
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