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The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Winning, World

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Hate
Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

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

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

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Learning
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.619, Best Books on

A 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
War, Lying, Cities
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.698, Best Books on

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Blood
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Hate, War
"The Quotable Dwight D. Eisenhower". Book edited by Elsie Gollagher, p. 219, 1967.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Cold, Joseph Mccarthy

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Trying, Defense

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Stupid, Men
Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, www.dwightdeisenhower.com. June 03, 1947.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Childhood, Presidential

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Risk, Emergencies

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Dark, Evil
1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, People, Stupidity
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.315, Best Books on

Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Heart, Gun

Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Hatred, Suggestions

When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Race, Understanding

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

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Farewell
Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Freedom, War
Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fear, War, Fire
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, War, Clouds

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, World, Never Forget

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Long, Dollars