Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes - page 11

Dwight D. Eisenhower was an American military leader and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States. Widely respected for his leadership during World War II as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, he later guided the country through a pivotal era in the Cold War. He is remembered for advocating peace and infrastructure development, including the creation of the interstate highway system. Here are 300 of his quotes:

That new language is the language of atomic warfare. The atomic age has moved forward at such a pace that every citizen of the world should have some comprehension, at least in comparative terms, of the extent of this development of the utmost significance to every one of us. Clearly, if the people of the world are to conduct an intelligent search for peace, they must be armed with the significant facts of today's existence.

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This is a long tough road we have to travel.

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There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce. There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak. But the law of which we speak, comprehending the values of freedom, affirms the equality of all nations, great and small. Splendid as can be the blessings of such a peace, high will be its cost: in toil patiently sustained, in help honorably given, in sacrifice calmly borne.

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I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

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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 world where moral law prevails. The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard.

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It is with the book of history, and not with isolated pages, that the United States will ever wish to be identified. My country wants to be constructive, not destructive. It wants agreement, not wars, among nations. It wants itself to live in freedom, and in the confidence that the people of every other nation enjoy equally the right of choosing their own way of life. So my country's purpose is to help us move out of the dark chamber of horrors into the light, to find a way by which the minds of men, the hopes of men, the souls of men every where, can move forward toward peace and happiness and well being.

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That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.

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Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

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We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed.

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In the councils of government, we must guard against 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. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

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We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications.

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We are a people born of many peoples.

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These are the laws that truly declare the eternal equality of all men, of all races, before the man-made laws of our land.

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Dr. Salk is a benefactor of mankind. His achievement, a credit to our entire scientific community, does honor to all the people of the United States.

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You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the falling domino principle.

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I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new.

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We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

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In the transformation from a rural to an urban society, children are - though they might not agree - robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

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Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.

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As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so-we believe-there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.

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All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it.

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