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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

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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Children, Military
Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Farewell, Government
Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Country, Military, Men
Letter to Everett E. ("Swede") Hazlett, as quoted in "Eisenhower the President" (1981) by William Bragg Ewald, Jr., p. 248, August 20, 1956.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life, Crazy, Military

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspiring, Military, Statistics

Beware the military-industrial complex.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Sirius, Military Industrial Complex

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Veterans Day, Freedom, Military
1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Military
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.524, Best Books on

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership, Motivation, Military
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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
Peace, Military, War
Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Struggle, Fall

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Suicide, Peace, Military
Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.1098, Best Books on

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Foundation, Facts

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, America, Tests

Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Military, Cost

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Military, Patriotic

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
Military, Farewell, Responsibility
Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strong, Military, Believe

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Success, Business, Military
Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inspirational, Sports, Military

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Order, Organization
1957 Address to the nation on Israel's invasion of Egypt, 20 Feb.

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Children, War, Military
Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership, Peace, Military
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, War, Clouds

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Enemy, Troops