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'peace and friendship, in freedom.'

'peace and friendship, in freedom.'

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom, Effort, Defense

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Real, Mean, Men
Speech at Guildhall, London, on June 12, 1945. "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1967.

Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more 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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sports, Country, Golf

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military, Warfare, Use
Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hate, Years, President

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Age, Measurement, Size
"At ease: stories I tell to friends" by Dwight David Eisenhower, (p. 389), 1967.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Political, Lovely, President

I'm for each and against none.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Competition

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Children, Opportunity, Survival

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wise, Military, Subordination

Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
America, Gathering, Influence

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Heart, Men, Rights
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.518, Best Books on

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Travel, Journey, Korea

We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men, Views, Nations
First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

Public opinion wins wars.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
War, Winning, Public Opinion
"Why the reporter is the last bastion of truth" by Jon Swain, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2003.

The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Country, Determination, War
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.828, Best Books on

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dog, Character, Men

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Useless, Planning, Process

The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mean, Government, Agriculture
Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.61, Best Books on

I come from the very heart of America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Heart, America
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1978). “The papers: The chief of staff”

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
World, Affair, Confession
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.34, Best Books on

No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Agreement, Constitution, Treaties

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Ease, Today
Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Spring, Government, Presidential
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958".