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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.speech in Washington, 16 April 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960)
- You have broader considerations that might follow what you might call the ‘falling domino’ principle. You have a row of dominoes set up. You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly. So you have the beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.speech at press conference, 7 April 1954
- Farming looks mighty easy when your plough is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.speech, Peoria, 25 September 1956
- When you are in any contest, you should work like there is always to the very last minute a chance to lose it.President's news conference, 27 September 1956, in Public papers of the Presidents of the United States (1972)
- What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.remark, Republican National Committee Breakfast, 31 January 1958
- I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.broadcast discussion, 31 August 1959
- In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.Richard Nixon Six Crises (1962); attributed
- No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.in Parade Magazine 8 April 1962
- The sergeant is the army.attributed
