Coming from a man with a long-term military career that is a sound quote .. that said, in the interest of your future this one of Eisenhower's you oughta be giving more consideration to ..
Farewell address (17 January 1961)
During the long lane of the history yet to be written, America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.