The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. EisenhowerAs we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIn the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
Dwight D. EisenhowerYou can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
Dwight D. EisenhowerA preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower