Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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.
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
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I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
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To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
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I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
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I know that the American people share my deep belief that if a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all; and equally, that if hope exists in the mind of one nation, that hope should be shared by all.
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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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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.
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These proposals spring, without ulterior motive or political passion, from our calm conviction that the hunger for peace is in the hearts of all people - those of Russia and of China no less than of our own country. They conform to our firm faith that God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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I share the sense of shock and dismay that the entire nation must feel at the despicable act that took the life of the nation's president. On the personal side, Mrs. Eisenhower and I share the grief that Mrs. Kennedy must now feel. We send to her our prayerful thoughts and sympathetic sentiments in this hour.
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The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
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The government in Washington belongs to you.
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A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.
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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.