Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.