Wisdom from General Eisenhower
For Veteran's Day, some wisdom from great American veteran, General Dwight D. Eisenhower:
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity." - January 10, 1946
"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 their way and let them have it." - August 31, 1959
"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." - April 16, 1953
"There is no way in which a country can satisfy the craving for absolute security, but it can bankrupt itself morally and economically in attempting to reach that illusory goal through arms alone."
"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads"- 1949
"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
"A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility. I don't believe there is such a thing, and frankly I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing." - Press conference in 1954
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leslie.hawes (19 months ago | reply)
I Like Ike.