3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
