All DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Quotes about “Cold War”

“I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].”
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
“We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.”
“In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.”
“It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war-until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea.”
“We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.”
“The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.”
“The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

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