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Quotes
Agronomics
"The proper role of authorities, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means nosotros must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agronomics may continue to be a sound, indelible foundation for our economy and that subcontract living may exist a assisting and satisfying feel."
Special Bulletin to the Congress on Agriculture, 1/9/56
"You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and y'all're a thousand miles from the corn field."
Address at Bradley Academy, Peoria, Illinois, nine/25/56
Anecdotes
"I come from the very centre of America."
Guildhall Spoken language, London, six/12/45 
"The proudest affair I tin can claim is that I am from Abilene."
Homecoming Speech communication, Abilene, Kansas, 6/22/45
"Don't defend yourself. Don't explicate. Don't worry."
Letter of the alphabet, DDE to Omar Bradley, 10/26/1949 [DDE'due south Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 13]
"Any America hopes to bring to pass in the world must get-go come up to laissez passer in the heart of America."
Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, 1/twenty/53
"For history does non long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, 1/20/53
"A people that values its privileges in a higher place its principles soon loses both."
Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, one/twenty/53
"There is -- in globe affairs -- a steady class to be followed betwixt an exclamation of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
State of the Spousal relationship Address, 2/two/53
"Thank goodness, many years agone, I had a preceptor, for whom my admiration has never died, and he had a favorite saying, one that I trust I try to live by. It was: e'er take your job seriously, never yourself."
Accost at the New England "Forward to '54" Dinner, Boston, Massachusetts, ix/21/53
"I was raised in a little town of which most of you have never heard. But in the West it is a famous place. It is called Abilene, Kansas. Nosotros had as our marshal for a long fourth dimension a human named Wild Bill Hickok. If you don't know anything well-nigh him, read your Westerns more than. At present that boondocks had a lawmaking, and I was raised every bit a boy to prize that code. Information technology was: run into anyone face to face with whom you disagree. Yous could not sneak upwardly on him from backside, or exercise any impairment to him, without suffering the penalty of an outraged citizenry. If yous met him face to face and took the aforementioned risks he did, you could go abroad with almost annihilation, as long equally the bullet was in the front."
Remarks Upon Receiving America's Democratic Legacy Laurels at a B'nai B'rith Dinner in Honour of the 40th Ceremony of the Anti-Defamation League, 11/23/53
"At that place is an onetime saw in the services: that which is not inspected deteriorates."
The President'southward News Conference of 5/12/54
"Well, information technology is very important, and the great idea of setting up an organism is so as to defeat the domino result. When, each continuing alone, ane falls, it has the effect on the side by side, and finally the whole row is down. Y'all are trying, through a unifying influence, to build that row of dominoes and so they can stand the fall of one, if necessary."
The President's News Briefing of v/12/54
"When I was a boy, I was 1 of half dozen in my family. We had a quarrel daily as to who could get up and do the chore of bringing the groceries downwardly home. They had a practice so, in grocery stores, that I understand growing efficiency has eliminated -- always hoping that the grocer would say you can have one of the dried prunes out of the barrel over at that place. Simply better than that was the dill pickle jar that y'all could swoop into, sometimes arm deep almost, and endeavour to get ane. I understand that they are non that accommodating anymore; we accept got also efficient. When y'all go around picking things off the shelf, y'all pay for them. These, you understand, were free. That meant a lot to immature boys to whom a nickel looked about as big every bit a wheel on a subcontract wagon."
Remarks at the Convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers, 6/16/54
"Now I realize that on any detail decision a very swell corporeality of heat can be generated. But I do say this: life is not made up of just i decision hither, or another one there. It is the total of the decisions that you make in your daily lives with respect to politics, to your family, to your surroundings, to the people about you. Government has to do that same thing. Information technology is merely in the mass that finally philosophy really emerges."
Remarks at Luncheon Meeting of the Republican National Commission and the Republican National Finance Committee, ii/17/55
"Today there is a great ideological struggle going on in the world. One side upholds what information technology calls the materialistic dialectic. Denying the existence of spiritual values, information technology maintains that man responds only to materialistic influences and consequently he is aught. He is an educated animal and is useful only as he serves the ambitions -- desires -- of a ruling clique; though they try to make this finer-sounding than that, considering they say their dictatorship is that of the proletariat, meaning that they dominion in the people's name -- for the people. Now, on our side, nosotros recognize right abroad that man is not merely an animate being, that his life and his ambitions have at the bottom a foundation of spiritual values."
Remarks at 11th Annual Washington Briefing of the Advert Council, 3/22/55
"Some politician some years agone said that bad officials are elected by good voters who exercise non vote."
Remarks at the Breakfast Coming together of Republican State Chairmen, Denver, Colorado, 9/ten/55
"Alter based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes anarchy."
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, eight/23/56
"One American put it this way: 'Every tomorrow has 2 handles. We tin can take concord of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith'."
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, eight/23/56
"The world moves, and ideas that were skillful once are not always good."
The President's News Conference of 8/31/56
"I believe when y'all are in any contest you should piece of work like there is always to the very terminal minute a hazard to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. So I just see no alibi if y'all believe anything plenty for not putting your whole heart into information technology. It is what I do."
The President'due south News Conference of 9/27/56
"I belong to a family unit of boys who were raised in meager circumstances in primal Kansas, and every one of u.s. earned our way as we went along, and it never occurred to the states that nosotros were poor, merely we were."
Television Broadcast: "The People Ask the President," 10/12/56
"The promise of the globe is that wisdom can arrest disharmonize between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds."
Address, National Education Association, Washington, DC, 4/4/57
"I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, just planning is everything."
Remarks at the National Defence force Executive Reserve Conference, eleven/14/57
"But these calculations overlook the decisive element: what counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -- it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Excerpts From Remarks at Republican National Commission Breakfast, one/31/58
"But finally, at that place is 1 other quality I would mention among these that I believe will fit you for difficult and important posts. This is a healthy and lively sense of humor."
Address at U. Due south. Naval Academy Showtime, 6/4/58
"A famous Frenchman once said, 'War has get far besides important to entrust to the generals.' Today, business, I think, should be saying: 'Politics take get far too important to entrust to the politicians'."
Remarks, Business Council, Hot Springs, Virginia, 10/20/62
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Censorship
"Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow style of approaching the solution to any problem. Though sometimes necessary, as witness a professional person and technical secret that may have a bearing upon the welfare and very safe of this country, we should be very careful in the mode we employ it, considering in censorship ever lurks the very peachy danger of working to the disadvantage of the American nation."
Associated Press dejeuner, New York, New York, 4/24/50
"Don't join the book burners. Don't call back y'all are going to conceal faults past concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the just censorship."
Remarks at the Dartmouth College Start Exercises, Hanover, New Hampshire, 6/14/53[Sound]
Children/Youth/Families
"Youth -- our greatest resource -- is being seriously neglected in a vital respect. The nation as a whole is not preparing teachers or building schools fast enough to go along up with the increment in our population."
Annual Message to the Congress on the Land of the Union, 1/7/54[AUDIO]
"I say with all the earnestness that I can command, that if American mothers will teach our children that there is no end to the fight for better relationships among the people of the world, nosotros shall take peace."
Address to the National Council of Catholic Women, Boston, Massachusetts, 11/8/54
"In this connection, I should mention our enormous national debt. Nosotros must brainstorm to make some payments on it if we are to avoid passing on to our children an incommunicable burden of debt."
Remarks on the State of the Union Message, Cardinal West, Florida, 1/five/56[AUDIO]
"Teachers demand our agile support and encouragement. They are doing one of the nigh necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our futurity citizens."
Address at the Centennial Celebration Feast of the National Pedagogy Association, iv/four/57 [AUDIO]
"At present, the educational activity of our children is of national concern, and if they are non educated properly, it is a national calamity."
The President'south News Briefing of vii/31/57 [Sound]
"I am not hither, of class, as one pretending to whatever expertness on questions of youth and children -- except in the sense that, within their ain families, all grandfathers are experts on these matters."
Address at the Opening Session of the White Business firm Conference on Children and Youth, College Park, Maryland, 3/27/threescore [AUDIO]
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Citizenship
"Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the police." -Address to Constituent Associates, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 8, 1946
"The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America's strength." - Address at Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont, June 9, 1946
"The proudest human that walks the globe is a free American citizen." -Talk at the Commercial Order of Chicago, May 21, 1948
"A people that values its privileges to a higher place its principles soon loses both." -Inaugural Address, January twenty, 1953
"I believe the only mode to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others." -Remarks at the United Negro Higher Fund luncheon, May nineteen, 1953
"I believe every bit long every bit we let weather condition to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-course citizens." -Remarks at the United Negro College Fund luncheon, May 19, 1953
"The full general limits of your liberty are merely these: that you exercise non trespass upon the equal rights of others." -Remarks to the National Lodge of the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 22, 1954
"The history of free men is never really written past chance--only by choice--their option." -Address in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October ix, 1956
"A foundation of our American style of life is our national respect for law." - Accost to the American People on the state of affairs in Niggling Rock, Arkansas, September 24, 1957
"Liberty under law is like the air we exhale." -Remarks on the Observance of Law Day, April 30, 1958
"It is only as we govern ourselves that nosotros are well-governed." -Remarks on the Observance of Police force Solar day, April thirty, 1958
Civil Rights
"I propose to utilize any authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the Commune of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and whatever segregation in the War machine."
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, ii/2/53 [Sound]
"We take erased segregation in those areas of national life to which Federal authority conspicuously extends. So doing in this, my friends, we accept neither sought nor claimed partisan credit, and all such deportment are nothing more -- nothing less than the rendering of justice. And we have e'er been enlightened of this corking truth: the final boxing against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men."
Address at the Hollywood Bowl, Beverly Hills, California, 10/19/56[AUDIO]
"It was my hope that this localized situation would exist brought nether control past city and State government. If the utilize of local police powers had been sufficient, our traditional method of leaving the bug in those hands would have been pursued. But when big gatherings of obstructionists made it incommunicable for the decrees of the Court to exist carried out, both the law and the national interest demanded that the President have action."
Radio and Telly Accost to the American People on the Situation in Little Stone 9/24/57[Audio]
"I do not believe that all of these problems can be solved only by a new law, or something that someone says, with teeth in it. For example, when nosotros got into the Little Rock thing, it was not my province to talk virtually segregation or desegregation. I had the job of supporting a federal court that had issued a proper society under the Constitution, and where compliance was prevented by activeness that was unlawful."
The President's News Briefing of iii/26/58
"I believe that the United States as a regime, if information technology is going to exist true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion."
The President's News Conference of 5/13/59
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Education
"The true purpose of education is to set up young men and women for effective citizenship in a complimentary grade of government."
Oral communication at William and Mary Higher, Williamsburg, Virginia, May fifteen, 1953 [Audio]
"Information technology is unwise to make education besides cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a trend to put no value on annihilation. Education must always have a certain cost on it; fifty-fifty as the very process of learning itself must always crave individual effort and initiative."
Address, Centennial Celebration Banquet of the National Education Association, Washington, DC, 4/4/57[Sound]
Government
"I of my predecessors is said to accept observed that in making his decisions he had to operate like a football quarterback -- he could not very well telephone call the adjacent play until he saw how the last play turned out. Well, that may be a good manner to run a football team, only in these days it is no way to run a regime."
Address at the Moo-cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, 8/23/56 [Sound]
"A audio nation is congenital of individuals sound in body and listen and spirit. Authorities dares non ignore the private denizen."
Address at a Rally in the Public Foursquare, Cleveland, Ohio, 10/1/56[AUDIO]
"We cannot safely confine authorities programs to our own domestic progress and our own military power. Nosotros could exist the wealthiest and the near mighty nation and still lose the battle of the world if nosotros do non assist our earth neighbors protect their freedom and accelerate their social and economical progress. It is not the goal of the American people that the United States should be the richest nation in the graveyard of history."
Special Bulletin to the Congress on the Mutual Security Program, 3/thirteen/59
Holocaust
"Simply the most interesting -- although horrible -- sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German language internment camp virtually Gotha. The things I saw beggar clarification. While I was touring the camp I encountered 3 men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In i room, where they [there] were piled upward twenty or xxx naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not fifty-fifty enter. He said he would become ill if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in lodge to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, at that place develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda'."
Letter, DDE to George C. Marshall, four/15/45 [The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The War Years IV, doc #2418]
"We continue to uncover German concentration camps for political prisoners in which conditions of indescribable horror prevail. I accept visited ane of these myself and I clinch you that whatsoever has been printed on them to date has been understatement. If you would run across any reward in asking nigh a dozen leaders of Congress and a dozen prominent editors to make a short visit to this theater in a couple of C-54'due south, I will arrange to have them conducted to i of these places where the evidence of animality and cruelty is so overpowering as to leave no dubiety in their minds near the normal practices of the Germans in these camps."
Cable, DDE to George C. Marshall, 4/19/45 [The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The War Years 4, doc #2424]
"When I found the first campsite like that I think I never was and then angry in my life. The bestiality displayed there was not merely piled up bodies of people that had starved to expiry, but to follow out the route and run into where they tried to evacuate them so they could still work, you could see where they sprawled on the route. You could go to their burial pits and see horrors that really I wouldn't even want to begin to depict. I think people ought to know about such things. It explains something of my attitude toward the German language war criminal. I believe he must be punished, and I volition hold out for that forever."
Press conference, 6/18/45 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box 156, Press Statements and Releases, 1944-46 (1)]
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Korean War
"Nosotros have at present gained a truce in Korea. We do not greet information technology with wild rejoicing. We know how dear its cost has been in life and treasure."
Radio Report to the American People on the Achievements of the Administration and the 83d Congress, 8/6/53[AUDIO]
"Obviously all of us know that the composition that was reached in Korea is not satisfactory to America, simply information technology is far better than to continue the bloody, dreary, cede of lives with no possible strictly armed services victory in sight."
Address at the Illinois State Fair at Springfield, 8/19/54[AUDIO]
"And of course, there was the state of war in Korea, a war around which there had grown up such a political situation that war machine victory, at least a decisive military victory, was no longer in the cards."
Radio and Tv set Accost to the American People on the Achievements of the 83rd Congress, 8/23/54 [Audio]
"In June of concluding year we negotiated a truce which ended the Korean State of war, preserved the Republic of Korea'southward liberty, and frustrated the Communist design for conquest."
Address at the American Legion Convention, 8/30/54 [AUDIO]
Labor
I have no use for those — regardless of their political party — who concur some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.
Speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, ix/17/52
Today in America unions take a secure place in our industrial life. Only a scattering of unreconstructed reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions. Only a fool would attempt to deprive working men and women of the right to bring together the union of their choice.
Speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, 9/17/52
Regime tin practice a peachy deal to assistance the settlement of labor disputes without allowing itself to be employed as an ally of either side. Its proper role in industrial strife is to encourage the process of arbitration and conciliation.
State of the Union Message, Washington, DC, 2/two/53[AUDIO]
Leadership/System
"What is Leadership?" past Dwight D. Eisenhower
"You have got to have something in which to believe. Yous have got to take leaders, organisation, friendships, and contacts that assist you to believe that, and aid y'all to put out your best."
Remarks to the Leaders of the United Defense Fund, iv/29/54 [Audio]
"Now I retrieve, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the fine art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to practise it, not because your position of ability tin compel him to do it, or your position of authority. A commander of a regiment is not necessarily a leader. He has all of the goods of ability given by a gear up of Army regulations past which he can compel unified action. He can say to a body such equally this, "Rise," and "Sit down." You lot do it exactly. But that is not leadership."
Remarks at the Almanac Conference of the Society for Personnel Administration, 5/12/54[Audio]
"The job of getting people really wanting to practice something is the essence of leadership. And one of the things a leader needs occasionally is the inspiration he gets from the people he leads. The old tactical textbooks say that the commander e'er visits his troops to inspire them to fight. I for one before long discovered that i of the reasons for my visiting the forepart lines was to become inspiration from the young American soldier. I went back to my chore ashamed of my own occasional resentments or discouragements, which I probably -- at least I hope I concealed them."
Remarks at the Breakfast Meeting of Republican State Chairmen, Denver, Colorado, ix/x/55
"As long equally I am back in my military life for a 2nd, I should like to find i thing about leadership that one of the not bad has said -- Napoleon. He said, the great leader, the genius in leadership, is the man who can practice the average thing when everybody else is going crazy."
Address at Meeting Sponsored by the Republican National Commission, 4/17/56
"The essence of leadership is to get others to exercise something because they think y'all want information technology done and considering they know it is worth while doing -- that is what we are talking virtually."
Remarks at the Republican Entrada Picnic at the President'due south Gettysburg Farm, 9/12/56
"Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than nigh any other I know."
The President'due south News Conference of xi/14/56
"My life has been largely spent in affairs that required organization. But organization itself, necessary equally it is, is never sufficient to win a battle."
Remarks to Participants in the Immature Republican National Leadership Training School, ane/twenty/sixty[Audio]
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Peace
"Since the appearance of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world."
Remarks at the Department of State 1954 Honor Awards Anniversary, 10/19/54[Audio]
"There can be no true disarmament without peace, and in that location tin be no real peace without very cloth disarmament."
Remarks at the Republican Women'south National Conference, five/10/55[Audio]
"The peace we seek and demand means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the earth."
Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Developments in Eastern Europe and the Eye East, 10/31/56[AUDIO]
"In vast stretches of the world, men awoke today in hunger. They volition spend the day in unceasing toil. And equally the sun goes down they will even so know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will always decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. And so long as this is so, peace and freedom volition be in danger throughout our world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty volition be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown."
Remarks of Welcome to the Delegates to the Tenth Colombo Programme Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 11/10/58[AUDIO]
"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 ameliorate get out of the way and let them accept information technology."
Radio and Boob tube Broadcast With Prime number Minister Macmillan in London, eight/31/59
"So -- our readiness to come across and defeat this kind of possible assault is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alacrity to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the globe where our rights -- our style of life -- can be seriously damaged. Piece of work of this kind occupies my days and nights."
Alphabetic character from DDE to Hallock Brown Hoffman, Feb 7, 1955
"I take said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, in that location is no chore I would non undertake if I had any faintest promise that, by and then doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace."
The President's News Conference, March 23, 1955 [Sound]
"As for myself and for the Secretarial assistant of Land and others involved, including those in the Legislature, nosotros stand up gear up to do anything, to see with anyone, anywhere, equally long as nosotros may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and in that location is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this nifty cause of peace."
Remarks at the Republican Women's National Conference, May 10, 1955[Sound]
"For a but and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you lot: by dedication and patience we will continue, every bit long equally I remain your President, to piece of work for this simple -- this unmarried -- this exclusive goal."
Address at Byrd Field, Richmond, Virginia, October 29, 1956[Audio]
"The building of such a peace is a assuming and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is piece of cake. To serve information technology will be hard. And to attain it, nosotros must be aware of its full meaning -- and ready to pay its full price."
Second Inaugural Accost, January 21, 1957[Sound]
"For all that we cherish and justly desire -- for ourselves or for our children -- the securing of peace is the first requisite."
Radio and Telly Address to the American People on the Demand for Mutual Security in Waging the Peace, May 21, 1957
"Having established as our goals a lasting globe peace with justice and the security of liberty on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded every bit we pursue this path to its end."
Remarks at the Fort Pitt Chapter, Association of the Usa Army May 31, 1961
The Presidency
"My first day at the President's Desk. Plenty of worries and difficult problems. Simply such has been my portion for a long time -- the consequence is that this only seems (today) similar a continuation of all I've been doing since July '41 -- even before that!"
Diary entry, 1/21/53 [DDE Diaries: 1935-38, 1942, 1948-53, 1966, 1968, 1969; Box 1; 1953 DDE Desk-bound Diary]
"I would say that the Presidency is probably the most taxing job, as far every bit tiring of the listen and spirit; but it also has, as I have said earlier, its inspirations which tend to annul each other . . . In that location have been times in war where I thought nothing could be quite as wearing and tearing as that with lives directly involved. But I would say, on the whole, this is the nigh wearing, although not necessarily, as I say, the most tiring."
The President'south News Conference at Cardinal West, Florida, 1/eight/56
"Many people are always saying the Presidency is too big a chore for whatsoever one homo. When I hear this assertion, I ever try to indicate out that a single man must make the final decisions that bear upon the whole, but that proper system brings to him merely the questions and problems on which his decisions are needed. His own job is to be mentally prepared to make those decisions and then to be supported by an organization that volition make certain they are carried out."
Letter of the alphabet, DDE to Dillon Anderson, 1/22/68 [DDE'due south Post-Presidential Papers, 1968 Principal File, Box 36, "An"]
"On the other hand, I institute that getting things washed sometimes required other weapons from the Presidential arsenal -- persuasion, cajolery, fifty-fifty a little caput-thumping hither and at that place -- to say nothing of a personal streak of obstinacy which on occasion fires my boilers."
Some Thoughts on the Presidency, Reader's Digest, November 1968
Religion
"In other words, our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is."
Address at the Freedoms Foundation, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, New York, 12/22/52
"Today I think that prayer is just simply a necessity, because by prayer I believe we hateful an endeavor to go in touch with the Infinite. We know that even our prayers are imperfect. Even our supplications are imperfect. Of grade they are. We are imperfect human beings. But if nosotros tin back off from those problems and make the effort, then there is something that ties us all together. Nosotros have begun in our grasp of that basis of understanding, which is that all gratuitous government is firmly founded in a deeply-felt religious faith."
Remarks at the Dedicatory Prayer Breakfast of the International Christian Leadership, ii/v/53
"The churches of America are citadels of our faith in individual freedom and human nobility. This faith is the living source of all our spiritual strength. And this force is our matchless armor in our world-wide struggle confronting the forces of godless tyranny and oppression."
Bulletin to the National Co-Chairmen, Commission of Religious Organizations, National Conference on Christians and Jews, 7/9/53
"From this 24-hour interval forward, the millions of our school children volition daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school business firm, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. To anyone who truly loves America, cipher could be more inspiring than to contemplate this rededication of our youth, on each school forenoon, to our country'due south truthful pregnant.
Peculiarly is this meaningful as we regard today'southward world. Over the earth, mankind has been cruelly torn by violence and brutality and, by the millions, deadened in heed and soul by a materialistic philosophy of life. Man everywhere is appalled by the prospect of atomic war. In this somber setting, this law and its effects today take profound pregnant. In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and time to come; in this way nosotros shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource, in peace or in war."
Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill to Include the Words "Nether God" in the Pledge to the Flag, 6/14/54
"Faith is the mightiest force that man has at his command. It impels human beings to greatness in thought and word and deed."
Address at the Second Associates of the World Quango of Churches, Evanston, Illinois, viii/19/54 [AUDIO]
"We are substantially a religious people. We are not merely religious, nosotros are inclined, more than today than ever, to see the value of religion as a practical force in our affairs."
Address at the Second Associates of the World Council of Churches, Evanston, Illinois, 8/19/54[Sound]
"Without God, in that location could exist no American grade of Government, nor an American mode of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the starting time -- the most basic -- expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw information technology, and thus, with God'southward assistance, it will continue to be."
Remarks Recorded for the "Dorsum-to-God" Program of the American Legion, 2/20/55
"Since the day of cosmos, the fondest hopes of men and women accept been to pass on to their children something amend than they themselves enjoyed. That hope represents a spark of the Divine which is implanted in every homo breast."
Address at the Signing of the Declaration of Principles at the Meeting of the Presidents in Panama Urban center, 7/22/56
"The purpose is Divine; the implementation is human being. Our country and its regime have made mistakes -- human being mistakes. They have been of the head -- not of the heart. And it is still true that the cracking concept of the nobility of all men, alike created in the image of the Almighty, has been the compass by which we have tried and are trying to steer our course."
Almanac Bulletin to the Congress on the Country of the Union, 1/x/57
"Basic to our democratic civilization are the principles and convictions that have bound u.s.a. together as a nation. Among these are personal liberty, human rights, and the dignity of homo. All these have their roots in a deeply held religious faith -- in a belief in God."
Address at U.S. Naval Academy Commencement, vi/4/58
"The liberty of a citizen and the freedom of a religious believer are more than than intimately related; they are mutually dependent. These two liberties requite life to the heart of our Nation."
Remarks at the Cornerstone-Laying Ceremony for the Interchurch Center, New York City, New York, 10/12/58 [Audio]
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Sports
"My constant prayer, these days, every bit I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please allow me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper."
Alphabetic character, DDE to Bobby Jones, seven/28/51 [DDE'south Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 63, Jones, Robert Tyre Jr.]
"The other 24-hour interval Aks and I went upward to your ranch for a day'southward angling. I cannot remember any 24-hour interval when we accept had more fun on a stream. We had forth with the states three newspaper men and a few secret service people, many of whom had never seen a trout stream, so we did the thing up right past borrowing frying pans, bacon and corn meal from the married woman of your rancher -- and we cooked an outdoor meal for the oversupply. It was really quite a day."
Letter, DDE to Bal F. Swan, 8/fifteen/53 [DDE's Papers as President, Proper noun Series, Box 7, "Denver, 1953"]
"One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth."
Remarks at the Conference of the National Women'southward Informational Commission on Ceremonious Defence force, 10/26/54 [AUDIO]
"And the other was this: the doctor did desire to take off my leg considering he thought information technology was necessary. But you must recall boys in those days were raised for ii things: piece of work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds."
Radio and Television Broadcast: "The Women Ask the President," 10/24/56
"Just I call back a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or iii times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf game and bridge -- and whenever I felt similar talking or writing, doing information technology with carelessness and with no sense of responsibility any -- peradventure such a life wouldn't be so bad."
Letter, DDE to Alfred M. Gruenther, 11/ii/56 [The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Volume XVII - The Presidency: The Centre Way, Office 11, Chapter 22]
"I take merely realized that it is due to you lot, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Land Social club that the putting greenish here on the White House backyard is already in such first-class condition. I assure you that I go a groovy bargain of pleasure and relaxation out of using the light-green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . ."
Letter, DDE to Rear Admiral John South. Phillips, 4/12/57 [DDE'south Papers as President, President'south Personal File, Box 10, ane-A-7 Golf (4)]
"Not merely do I have a slap-up dear for the game of golf -- no matter how badly I play information technology -- but I have besides the conventionalities that through every kind of coming together, through every kind of activity to which we tin bring together more than often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure."
Remarks to Representatives of World Apprentice Golf Team Championship Conference, 5/ii/58[AUDIO]
"Probably no one here knows I coached a football game team -- a service squad -- playing against Georgetown. I think information technology was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he shell u.s.. But it was a very happy circumstance, because information technology brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Piddling, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend."
Remarks at the Dedication of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown Academy, ten/13/58[Sound]
"Well, a funny thing, there are 3 that I like all for the aforementioned reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they accept you into the fields. At that place is balmy exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on acme of it, it induces you lot to have at whatsoever one time 2 or iii hours, if you tin, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind information technology is a very healthful, beneficial kind of matter, and I practice it whenever I get a chance, every bit y'all well know."
The President's Press Conference of ten/xv/58[Audio]
"Morale -- the will to win, the fighting middle -- are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the defended teacher and scientist."
Remarks at the Outset Football Hall of Fame Dinner, New York City, New York, 10/28/58[AUDIO]
"I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of free energy and you lot simply happen to brand first base of operations. But you lot don't finish there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy -- and you lot count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you lot around to count a run."
Remarks at a Republican Men's Tiffin in Cleveland, Ohio 11/iv/60 [AUDIO]
"Yous did not tell me what y'all are doing athletically just now but I do promise that if your arm comes along next bound you tin get it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. Notwithstanding, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the best game of all of them."
Letter, DDE to grandson David Eisenhower, 11/17/65 [DDE'south Post Presidential Papers, Secretary's Serial, Box 13, Eisenhower]
"But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard -- almost slavish -- piece of work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication."
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War/Defence force
"I have been called a Fascist and almost a Hitlerite - actually, I accept one hostage confidence in this war. It is that no other war in history has so definitely lined upwards the forces of capricious oppression and dictatorship confronting those of man rights and individual freedom."
Letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to John South.D. Eisenhower, Apr 8, 1943 [Eisenhower'southward Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 173, Eisenhower John S.D. 1943-1946 (2)]
"Humility must always be the portion of any human who receives acclaim earned in claret of his followers and sacrifices of his friends."
Guildhall Accost, London, vi/12/45 [Audio]
"War is a grim, cruel business, a business organization justified but equally a ways of sustaining the forces of practiced against those of evil."
Transcription fabricated for National War Fund at request of Col. Luther L. Colina, nine/11/45
"I detest war as only a soldier who has lived information technology tin can, simply as 1 who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Address before the Canadian Club, Ottawa, Canada, one/x/46
"Guns and tanks and planes are nil unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and smashing productiveness behind it."
Accost to Economic Club of New York, Hotel Astor, 11/twenty/46
"State of war is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do then in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our mode of life justifies resort to conflict."
Graduation Exercises at the United states Military Academy, 6/three/47
"Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing every bit a preventive war. Although this proffer is repeatedly fabricated, none has withal explained how state of war prevents state of war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that state of war creates the conditions that beget state of war."
Remarks at Carnegie Plant, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE'southward Pre-Presidential Papers, Main File, Box 196, Carnegie Institute]
"Considering, therefore, we are defending a way of life, nosotros must be respectful of that way of life as nosotros go along to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what nosotros are trying to defend from without."
Spoken communication before NATO Quango, xi/26/51 [DDE'southward Pre-Pres. Papers, Box 197]
"Americans, indeed, all free men, call up that in the final selection a soldier's pack is not and so heavy a brunt as a prisoner's chains."
Inaugural Address, 1/20/53[AUDIO]
"Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we accolade this Easter time: 'When a strong human being, armed, keepeth his palace, his appurtenances are in peace'."
Argument on the Fourth Anniversary of the Signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, 4/4/53
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money solitary. Information technology is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modernistic heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. Information technology is two electric power plants, each serving a boondocks of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter airplane with a half meg bushels of wheat. Nosotros pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the all-time fashion of life to exist found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cantankerous of fe."
Address "The Chance for Peace" Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/53 [Audio]
"We practice not continue security establishments but to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. Nosotros go on the security forces to defend a way of life."
Remarks to the Committee for Economic Development, five/twenty/54 [AUDIO]
"A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you accept one if one of its features would exist several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would exist expressionless and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive state of war; that is state of war."
The President's News Briefing of 8/11/54 [Sound]
"And the side by side thing is that every war is going to astonish you lot in the way it occurred, and in the mode it is carried out."
The President'southward News Conference of three/23/55
"I have spent my life in the written report of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The report of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are quickly getting to the point that no war tin can exist won."
Letter, DDE to Richard L. Simon, Simon and Schuster, Inc., 4/4/56 [DDE'south Papers as President, DDE Diaries Serial, Box 14, April 1956 Miscellaneous (5)]
"When we get to the point, as we i day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of full general hostilities, regardless of the chemical element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, maybe we volition accept sense enough to run across at the conference tabular array with the agreement that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die."
Alphabetic character, DDE to Richard Fifty. Simon, Simon and Schuster, Inc., iv/4/56 [DDE's Papers as President, DDE Diaries Series, Box 14, April 1956 Miscellaneous (5)]
"Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defence -- to protect from violent assault what we already take. They are merely a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress."
Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Statler Hotel, Washington, DC, 4/21/56[Sound]
"We know something of the toll of that state of war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Always since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the state of war did."
The President's News Conference of 6/half dozen/56
"The just way to win the next world war is to prevent it."
Address at a Rally in the Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, 10/17/56
"We must be stiff at abode if we are going to be potent abroad. We empathise that. And so we want to be strong at domicile in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our education, in our economic system and, where necessary, militarily."
Radio and Television Circulate: "The Women Ask the President," ten/24/56
"The hope of the world is that wisdom tin arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the mortiferous harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I discover grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. Information technology says in result this: Panic strikes like a tempest and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God."
Address at the Centennial Celebration Feast of the National Didactics Association, 4/4/57[AUDIO]
"Kickoff, split footing, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever once again we should be involved in war, we volition fight it in all elements, with all services, every bit one single full-bodied attempt."
Special Bulletin to the Congress on Reorganization of the Defense Institution, four/three/58
"Now this brings me to my main topic -- our armed forces forcefulness -- more specifically, how to stay stiff against threat from exterior, without undermining the economic wellness that supports our security."
Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the International Press Institute, iv/17/58
"Outset, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson nosotros learned in World State of war Ii. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned information technology well."
Address to the American Club of Newspaper Editors and the International Printing Institute, 4/17/58
"At present all of united states of america deplore this vast armed services spending. Still, in the face of the Soviet mental attitude, nosotros realize its necessity. Whatsoever the toll, America will go on itself secure. Simply in the process we must not, by our ain hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know 1 sure way to overspend. That is past overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded armed forces machines and concepts."
Accost to the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the International Press Institute, 4/17/58
"I know something near that state of war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully do a policy of standing idly by while large aggressors utilise armed strength to conquer the small and weak."
Radio and Goggle box Report to the American People Regarding the Situation in the Formosa Straits, 9/11/58
"Whatever survey of the free earth'southward defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must exist devoted to armaments."
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, 1/9/59
"But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of state of war past refusing to defend its rights -- by attempting to placate aggression."
Radio and Idiot box Study to the American People: Security in the Free World, three/16/59
"In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths every bit the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values."
Address at the Opening Session of the White House Conference on Children and Youth, Higher Park, Maryland, three/27/60
"In the councils of government, we must guard confronting the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
Farewell Radio and Television Address to the American People, 1/17/61
"Morale is the greatest single factor in successful war."
Crusade in Europe, page 210
"Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders."
Cause in Europe, page 450
"Nosotros need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above capability has a long-term weakening upshot upon the nation and its security."
Waging Peace, page 622
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Source: http://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes
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