Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.”

“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”

“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.”

“Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.”

“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”

“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”

“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.”

“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?”

“Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.”