Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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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
The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the stories that began to circulate about me, I should have seen ample warning that the printed word is not always the whole truth. It didn't occur to me that I would spend part of my life after the war trying to sort out facts from fiction.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
During the war, my relations with the press had always been frank and cordial. They were scrupulously careful — when they understood — not to compromise security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
My own message to the NATO governments never varied — I hammered it home everywhere. If we could make a go of a practical pact permitting common military plans, procurement, organization, and control of the forces of NATO, the security of Western Europe would be assured. The region would then become a complex which would be, militarily, economically, and politically, as powerful as any other in the world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower