Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

When you go to war it is highly unlikely that it will end with a neat, tidy conclusion.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

If you can secure peace, you may be cursed by a lot of hotheads but … you will be blessed in Europe and by future generations

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Europe cannot survive another world war.

We make war that we may live in peace.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.