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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Real, Thinking
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.799, Best Books on

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strength, Peace, War
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.5, Best Books on

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Music, Peace, Military

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Body

So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Night

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
Peace, Children, Desire
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.396, Best Books on

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Mean
Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.1066, Best Books on

I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, World, Earth
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.351, Best Books on

As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Ideas, Self

There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Real, Disarmament
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.483, Best Books on

Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Sacrifice, Justice

The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Purpose, Pay
Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple - this single - this exclusive goal.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Simple, Dedication

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Military, War
Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, War, Wages
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.3, Best Books on

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

Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Children, War
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.830, Best Books on

There can be no peace without law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace, Law, Humanity