Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Military
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.
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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 arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
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It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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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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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.
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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
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You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
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Beware the military-industrial complex.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Born: October 14, 1890
- Died: March 28, 1969
- Occupation: 34th U.S. President
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