Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Hatred, Suggestions

• Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, Way, Opinion

  Associated Press luncheon in New York City, New York, April 24, 1950.

• Public opinion wins wars.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Winning, Public Opinion

  "Why the reporter is the last bastion of truth" by Jon Swain, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2003.

• I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, War, Loss

  "Mandate for Change: The White House Years, 1953-1956". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, pp. 312-313, 1963.

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