I like Ike!

On Earth Day I stopped after work at the Whole Earth Provision Company for some of that tending to my soul. I flipped through a book of anti-war quotes and found a great one by Eisenhower. Here it is along with some others I found while trying to find the first. Unfortunately, I don't know a ton about the man, but the more I find out the more I like the man. Enjoy.

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

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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.

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.

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.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

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

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

War settles nothing.