Words Of Wisdom

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


“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 D. Eisenhower


“War settles nothing.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


“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.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


“I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.”
- Dwight D. 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 D. Eisenhower