Top 64 Dwight D Eisenhower War Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.
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#3. In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.
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#4. And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.
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#5. We must be strong at home if we are going to be strong abroad. We understand that. So we want to be strong at home in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our education, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily.
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#6. The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.
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#7. The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.
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#8. We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.
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#10. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely
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#11. Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.
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#12. In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.
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#13. We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.
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#16. No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.
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#17. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign.
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#19. United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.
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#20. If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension ... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
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#21. 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.
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#23. The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home ... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion ... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.
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#25. Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark ... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
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#26. Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.
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#27. I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.
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#28. The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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#30. Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.
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#31. We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.
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#32. Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without.
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#33. I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.
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#34. In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon.
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#35. But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.
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#36. 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.
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#37. War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.
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#38. The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.
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#39. During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them ... their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.
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#40. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. a
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#41. The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.
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#43. Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.
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#44. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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#45. The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.
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#46. I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.
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#47. If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.
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#48. War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.
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#49. 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.
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#50. One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.
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#51. Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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#52. War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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#53. First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.
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#54. Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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#56. I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and weak.
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#57. 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?
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#58. The exchange of students ... should be vastly expanded ... Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
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#59. 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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#60. Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
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#63. In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.
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#64. You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.
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