Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
Dwight D. EisenhowerAnd now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
Dwight D. EisenhowerHelp the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.
Dwight D. EisenhowerAnd 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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower