Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

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

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

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

People didn’t want war. We were forced in it. How fast we finish it depends on how free a hand our generals and admirals have. The less interference they get from the politicians the quicker they’ll end it.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

You don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a b*tch die for his.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

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

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

No one ever wins a war.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.