Dwight D. Eisenhower

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. ”

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them. ”

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. ”

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. ”

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. ”

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. ”

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. ”

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. ”

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

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. ”