Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

[John McCain is]… not a war hero. He’s a war hero – he’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I Like people that weren’t captured, OK, I hate to tell you.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.