“Ike: Countdown to D-Day” quotes

“There is no true glory in war.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“- Prime Minister Winston Churchill: You know how to take charge.
- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: It's not about power. It is simply the judicious use of the responsibility you entrusted me with.”
Ian Mune - Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I admit to having developed a veneer of callousness, but counting the human cost is a terribly sad business, and no veneer of callousness allows me to escape the truth that back home the news brings anguish and suffering.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I'm not sending a bunch of fresh young kids to die for a people they know nothing about. I'm asking them to die for freedom and they're ready to do it and that's why they're heroes.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“So many youngsters already gone forever. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters back home must have a difficult time retaining any belief in the internal rightness of things.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“With so many fine young men and women from all corners of the Earth, all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.”

Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I remember my first trip to Europe as a young man, and I felt blessed to touch the origins of my own country that I love so dearly. I hoped one day all young Americans will have the same opportunity.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“There are two kinds of problem drinkers; those who drink too much and those who drink too little.”
Ian Mune - Prime Minister Winston Churchill

“How I wish this cruel business of war could be completed quickly. It leaves me heartsick to think of sending so many young men.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Hundreds of thousands will fighting to return home. But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some must die, it is in a worthy cause.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower