“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.” Dwight Eisenhower
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight Eisenhower
“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.” Dwight Eisenhower
“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.” Dwight Eisenhower
“How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?” Dwight Eisenhower
“Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.” Dwight Eisenhower
“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.” Dwight 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.” Dwight Eisenhower
“The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.” Dwight Eisenhower
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” Dwight Eisenhower
“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.” Dwight Eisenhower
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.” Dwight Eisenhower
“Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.” Dwight Eisenhower
“From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.” Dwight Eisenhower
“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.” Dwight Eisenhower
“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.” Dwight Eisenhower
“Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.” Dwight Eisenhower
“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.” Dwight Eisenhower
“The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.” Dwight Eisenhower
