"The Honor System as a feature of West Point seems to
grow in importance with a graduate as the years secede until finally it
becomes something which he is almost reluctant to talk about -- it
occupies a position in his mind akin to the virtue of his mother or his
sister." (1)
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
United
States Military Academy
Class
of 1915
WHY
DIE FOR A LIE?
WHY
KILL FOR A LIE?
WHY
TOLERATE LIARS?
"When
people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go
and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
(2)
"I
hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who
has seen its brutality, its stupidity. War settles
nothing." (3)
"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." (4)
"If
all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison.
They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads.
But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his
equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any
dictatorial government." (5)
1.
Letter to Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, then USMA Superintendent. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1983/40768/docs/taylor.html 2. Press conference: 1953. 3. Speech: Ottawa, Canada, January 10, 1946. 4. Speech: New York City, May 31, 1954.
5.
As president
of Columbia University, speech to luncheon clubs,
