The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
“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… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
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… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
