Behinds Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

— Anonymous

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

— Chiang Kai-shek

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

— John Ralston Saul

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

— Manfred von Richthofen

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

Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

— Mao Zedong

Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.

— Paul Newman

Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.

— John W Hinckley Jr

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

— Ferdinand Foch

The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

— Anonymous