Interesting quotes ...

[elare]

What I think makes them interesting is that they were all uttered by a Republican president ... who doesn't sound much like the present day party (IMO)

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, 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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. interesting that a military man

wasn't all that keen at taking the town to war....

[deadparrot]

2. His son is prominently anti-**.

I'm sure Ike would be, too.

As far as Republican presidents go, he's one of my favorites.

[SaveAmerica]

3. Thanks for those quotes, I'm going to lift one of them for my sig. line n/

[mopinko]

4. yup, more people should remember

few do. no one gets this button.




but i have been to marches where i see that speech on flyers and signs.

[left is right]

5. I am old enough to remember his last couple of years in office

but not to remember that he was a true visionary. My father liked and trusted him. Thank you for the quotes.

[elare]

6. What piqued my interest ...

Was the first quote ... that's what led me to look up other quotes of his. I'm internally debating whether or not to email these to the right-wing journalists like Scarborough .. but a very large part of me thinks that they won't care much about the opinion of a Canadian.