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Peace Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

87 Peace quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Peace is seen as a guard that must stay alert after an armistice. Eisenhower stresses that lasting peace needs cooperation, shared food, and the will to prevent a future world war. He also says that war is futile, that weapons must be turned into tools for peace, and that protecting future generations is the first duty.

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There can be no peace without law.

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War settles nothing.

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'peace and friendship, in freedom.'

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The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

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The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

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Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

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Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

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We merely want to live in peace with all the world...

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

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War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.

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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have…

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We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a…

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“The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.”

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The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

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Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire…

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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

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And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way…

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Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace…

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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…

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... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life…

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Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be…

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War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.…

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I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military…

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Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way…

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We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever…

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“To the USSR on Stalin's death: "Regardless of the identity of government personalities, the prayer of us Americans continues to be that…

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Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is…

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When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities,…

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In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the…

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Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more…

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A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be…

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As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do…

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger…

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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

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War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

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We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

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For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the…

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You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

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“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go…

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Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest…

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Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other…

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The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and…

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The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

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I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

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For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

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Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

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