"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

posted in War

Dwight D. Eisenhower quote on War: "When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After m..." - Aesthetic Wallpaper & Wisdom

Other Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Discover more inspiring quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

SocietyView Quote

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

MedicalView Quote

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

LeadershipView Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up."

-James A. Baldwin

"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."

-Stefan Zweig

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

-George Orwell

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."

-John Stuart Mill

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

-Hiram Johnson

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

-Albert Einstein