May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
From Dwight D. Eisenhower
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
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.
Only Americans can hurt America.
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.
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
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