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

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

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

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...

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one...

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one...

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

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...

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do...

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do...

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.

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...

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...

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

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

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

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 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.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the...

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the...

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity...

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity...

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, dont adjust the goals, adjust...

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, dont adjust the goals, adjust...