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. War settles nothing.

Quote by Dwight David Eisenhower

Topics: War Quotes

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of...

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of...

Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those...

Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those...

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights...

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights...

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

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

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber...

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber...

I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago...

I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago...

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before

Pessimism never won any battle.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory...

I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory...

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified...

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified...

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief...

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief...

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one...

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one...

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon...

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon...

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long...

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they...

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they...

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.