Dwight D. Eisenhower
Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.Collection: Attitude
I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.Collection: Sacrifice
No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.Collection: Battle
... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.Collection: Hands
You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.Collection: Heart
I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.Collection: Sports
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.Collection: War
Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.Collection: Government
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.Collection: War
Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.Collection: Men
We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.Collection: War
If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.Collection: Military
I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.Collection: War
Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.Collection: Jobs
One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.Collection: Powerful
[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.Collection: Disappointment
There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.Collection: President
The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.Collection: Friendship
How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?Collection: Night
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.Collection: Military
And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.Collection: War
Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.Collection: Keys
There are no victories at discount prices.Collection: Victory
Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.Collection: Enemy
United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.Collection: Determination
Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.Collection: Fear
Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.Collection: War
One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.Collection: Sports
[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law.Collection: Powerful
If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.Collection: Country
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Military
By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.Collection: Presidential
Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.Collection: Military
Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young peopleCollection: Our World
During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.Collection: Determination
How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.Collection: Funny
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.Collection: Funny
The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.Collection: Future
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.Collection: Progress
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagelyCollection: War
We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Stay Strong
My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.Collection: Ambition
As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.Collection: Strength
We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.Collection: Race
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.Collection: Peace
When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.Collection: Rights
Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.Collection: Stupid