Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”

“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 bette...”

“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 ...”

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

“One day the people of the world will want peaceso much that the governments will have to get outof their way and give it to them.”

“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be...”

“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. This world in...”

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

“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”

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

“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.”

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

“Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.”

“Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

“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. ”

“The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.”

“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every cit...”

“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”

“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. Ther...”