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Quotes
Agriculture
"The proper role of government, still, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. Past every possible ways we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may go along to exist a sound, indelible foundation for our economy and that subcontract living may be a assisting and satisfying experience."
Special Bulletin to the Congress on Agriculture, 1/9/56
"You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
Address at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, 9/25/56
Anecdotes
"I come from the very centre of America."
Guildhall Speech, London, half dozen/12/45 
"The proudest thing I tin can claim is that I am from Abilene."
Homecoming Speech, Abilene, Kansas, 6/22/45
"Don't defend yourself. Don't explain. Don't worry."
Letter, DDE to Omar Bradley, 10/26/1949 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Box thirteen]
"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."
Countdown Address, Washington, DC, 1/twenty/53
"For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
Countdown Address, Washington, DC, one/20/53
"A people that values its privileges to a higher place its principles before long loses both."
Countdown Address, Washington, DC, one/20/53
"There is -- in world affairs -- a steady form to be followed between an assertion of force that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
State of the Union Address, 2/2/53
"Thank goodness, many years ago, I had a preceptor, for whom my adoration has never died, and he had a favorite saying, one that I trust I try to live by. Information technology was: e'er take your job seriously, never yourself."
Address at the New England "Frontwards to '54" Dinner, Boston, Massachusetts, 9/21/53
"I was raised in a little town of which well-nigh of you accept never heard. Simply in the West information technology is a famous identify. It is called Abilene, Kansas. We had equally our marshal for a long time a homo named Wild Neb Hickok. If you lot don't know anything almost him, read your Westerns more. Now that boondocks had a code, and I was raised as a boy to prize that code. It was: meet anyone face to face with whom yous disagree. You could non sneak up on him from backside, or do any damage to him, without suffering the penalization of an outraged citizenry. If you lot met him face to face up and took the same risks he did, you could get away with almost anything, as long as the bullet was in the front."
Remarks Upon Receiving America's Autonomous Legacy Award at a B'nai B'rith Dinner in Award of the 40th Anniversary of the Anti-Defamation League, eleven/23/53
"In that location is an old saw in the services: that which is not inspected deteriorates."
The President's News Conference of 5/12/54
"Well, it is very important, and the cracking thought of setting upwards an organism is so as to defeat the domino result. When, each standing alone, 1 falls, information technology has the effect on the side by side, and finally the whole row is downwardly. You are trying, through a unifying influence, to build that row of dominoes so they tin stand the autumn of one, if necessary."
The President's News Conference of 5/12/54
"When I was a boy, I was one of half-dozen in my family. We had a quarrel daily as to who could go upward and do the chore of bringing the groceries downward dwelling house. They had a practise then, in grocery stores, that I empathize growing efficiency has eliminated -- ever hoping that the grocer would say you can have 1 of the stale prunes out of the butt over there. But better than that was the dill pickle jar that you could dive into, sometimes arm deep virtually, and attempt to get one. I sympathise that they are not that accommodating anymore; nosotros take got besides efficient. When you become effectually picking things off the shelf, you pay for them. These, you understand, were complimentary. That meant a lot to young boys to whom a nickel looked near as big as a wheel on a farm wagon."
Remarks at the Convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers, half dozen/sixteen/54
"Now I realize that on any particular decision a very great amount of heat can be generated. Simply I exercise say this: life is not made upward of just 1 conclusion here, or some other one there. It is the full of the decisions that you brand in your daily lives with respect to politics, to your family, to your environment, to the people well-nigh you. Government has to exercise that aforementioned thing. It is simply in the mass that finally philosophy really emerges."
Remarks at Lunch Meeting of the Republican National Committee and the Republican National Finance Committee, 2/17/55
"Today in that location is a great ideological struggle going on in the world. 1 side upholds what it calls the materialistic dialectic. Denying the being of spiritual values, information technology maintains that man responds only to materialistic influences and consequently he is null. 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, because they say their dictatorship is that of the proletariat, meaning that they rule in the people'south name -- for the people. Now, on our side, we recognize correct away that man is not merely an animal, that his life and his ambitions have at the bottom a foundation of spiritual values."
Remarks at 11th Annual Washington Conference of the Advertising Council, 3/22/55
"Some politico some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who practise not vote."
Remarks at the Breakfast Meeting of Republican State Chairmen, Denver, Colorado, nine/10/55
"Change based on principle is progress. Constant alter without principle becomes chaos."
Address at the Moo-cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, 8/23/56
"One American put it this way: 'Every tomorrow has two handles. Nosotros can grab it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith'."
Accost at the Moo-cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, 8/23/56
"The earth moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good."
The President's News Briefing of 8/31/56
"I believe when you are in any contest you should piece of work like in that location is ever to the very last minute a chance to lose information technology. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. So I just see no excuse if you believe annihilation enough for non putting your whole heart into it. It is what I do."
The President'south News Conference of 9/27/56
"I vest to a family unit of boys who were raised in meager circumstances in central Kansas, and every one of us earned our way as we went forth, and information technology never occurred to us that we were poor, simply we were."
Television set Broadcast: "The People Ask the President," 10/12/56
"The hope of the globe is that wisdom tin can abort conflict between brothers. I believe that state of war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds."
Address, National Education Clan, Washington, DC, four/iv/57
"I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long agone in the Regular army: Plans are worthless, only planning is everything."
Remarks at the National Defence Executive Reserve Briefing, 11/fourteen/57
"But these calculations overlook the decisive element: what counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -- information technology'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 one other quality I would mention among these that I believe volition fit you for difficult and important posts. This is a healthy and lively sense of humor."
Accost at U. S. Naval Academy Commencement, half dozen/iv/58
"A famous Frenchman one time said, 'War has become far as well important to entrust to the generals.' Today, business, I recollect, should exist maxim: 'Politics have become far too important to entrust to the politicians'."
Remarks, Business Quango, Hot Springs, Virginia, 10/20/62
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Censorship
"Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any trouble. Though sometimes necessary, as witness a professional person and technical secret that may have a begetting upon the welfare and very safety of this country, we should exist very careful in the style nosotros apply it, because in censorship always lurks the very great danger of working to the disadvantage of the American nation."
Associated Printing luncheon, New York, New York, iv/24/50
"Don't bring together the book burners. Don't think yous are going to conceal faults past concealing bear witness that they ever existed. Don't be agape to become in your library and read every book, as long as that certificate does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship."
Remarks at the Dartmouth College Commencement Exercises, Hanover, New Hampshire, 6/xiv/53[AUDIO]
Children/Youth/Families
"Youth -- our greatest resource -- is being seriously neglected in a vital respect. The nation every bit a whole is not preparing teachers or building schools fast enough to continue upward with the increase in our population."
Almanac Bulletin to the Congress on the State of the Union, one/7/54[Sound]
"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 amidst the people of the world, nosotros shall have peace."
Address to the National Council of Cosmic Women, Boston, Massachusetts, 11/8/54
"In this connection, I should mention our enormous national debt. We must begin to brand 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, Key Westward, Florida, 1/v/56[Sound]
"Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing ane of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our time to come citizens."
Address at the Centennial Celebration Banquet of the National Educational activity Association, 4/4/57 [AUDIO]
"Now, the education of our children is of national business, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national cataclysm."
The President'southward News Conference of 7/31/57 [Sound]
"I am not here, of course, as ane pretending to whatsoever expertness on questions of youth and children -- except in the sense that, within their own families, all grandfathers are experts on these matters."
Address at the Opening Session of the White Firm Briefing on Children and Youth, Higher Park, Maryland, 3/27/60 [AUDIO]
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Citizenship
"Republic is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law." -Accost to Constituent Assembly, 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'due south forcefulness." - Accost at Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont, June 9, 1946
"The proudest homo that walks the earth is a free American citizen." -Talk at the Commercial Club of Chicago, May 21, 1948
"A people that values its privileges above its principles shortly loses both." -Inaugural Address, January twenty, 1953
"I believe the simply way to protect my ain rights is to protect the rights of others." -Remarks at the United Negro College Fund luncheon, May 19, 1953
"I believe as long every bit we allow conditions to exist that make for 2nd-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than splendid citizens." -Remarks at the United Negro College Fund luncheon, May 19, 1953
"The full general limits of your freedom are but these: that you lot exercise non trespass upon the equal rights of others." -Remarks to the National Social club of the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 22, 1954
"The history of free men is never really written by chance--just by choice--their pick." -Address in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1956
"A foundation of our American fashion of life is our national respect for law." - Accost to the American People on the situation in Picayune Stone, Arkansas, September 24, 1957
"Freedom under police is like the air nosotros breathe." -Remarks on the Observance of Law Twenty-four hour period, Apr 30, 1958
"Information technology is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed." -Remarks on the Observance of Law Day, April xxx, 1958
Civil Rights
"I advise to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces."
Annual Bulletin to the Congress on the Country of the Matrimony, 2/2/53 [AUDIO]
"We have 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 zippo more -- nothing less than the rendering of justice. And nosotros have always been aware of this groovy truth: the concluding boxing confronting intolerance is to exist fought -- not in the chambers of whatever legislature -- but in the hearts of men."
Address at the Hollywood Bowl, Beverly Hills, California, x/19/56[Sound]
"It was my hope that this localized situation would exist brought under control by city and Country authorities. If the utilize of local police powers had been sufficient, our traditional method of leaving the issues in those hands would have been pursued. Simply when large gatherings of obstructionists made it impossible for the decrees of the Courtroom to be carried out, both the police force and the national interest demanded that the President take action."
Radio and Goggle box Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Stone nine/24/57[AUDIO]
"I do not believe that all of these problems can be solved merely by a new constabulary, or something that someone says, with teeth in it. For example, when we got into the Little Rock matter, it was non my province to talk most segregation or desegregation. I had the task of supporting a federal courtroom that had issued a proper order under the Constitution, and where compliance was prevented by activeness that was unlawful."
The President'southward News Conference of iii/26/58
"I believe that the Usa as a government, if it is going to be 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, colour, or religion."
The President's News Conference of 5/13/59
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Education
"The true purpose of teaching is to prepare immature men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government."
Spoken language at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 15, 1953 [Audio]
"Information technology is unwise to brand didactics too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must ever have a certain cost on it; even as the very procedure of learning itself must always require private effort and initiative."
Address, Centennial Celebration Banquet of the National Didactics Association, Washington, DC, four/4/57[AUDIO]
Regime
"One of my predecessors is said to have observed that in making his decisions he had to operate like a football quarterback -- he could non very well phone call the next play until he saw how the last play turned out. Well, that may be a good way to run a football team, but in these days it is no way to run a government."
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, 8/23/56 [AUDIO]
"A sound nation is built of individuals sound in body and heed and spirit. Government dares not ignore the individual citizen."
Address at a Rally in the Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, 10/1/56[Audio]
"We cannot safely confine government programs to our own domestic progress and our own military power. We could be the wealthiest and the most mighty nation and notwithstanding lose the battle of the world if we do not help our world neighbors protect their liberty and accelerate their social and economic progress. It is non the goal of the American people that the Usa should exist the richest nation in the graveyard of history."
Special Bulletin to the Congress on the Common Security Program, three/13/59
Holocaust
"Simply the most interesting -- although horrible -- sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment camp about Gotha. The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the camp I encountered three 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 then overpowering as to get out me a bit sick. In one room, where they [there] were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would become ill if he did so. I fabricated the visit deliberately, in gild to be in position to give kickoff-mitt evidence of these things if e'er, in the future, there develops a trend to charge these allegations but to 'propaganda'."
Alphabetic character, DDE to George C. Marshall, iv/15/45 [The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The War Years Four, doc #2418]
"Nosotros continue to uncover German concentration camps for political prisoners in which conditions of indescribable horror prevail. I have visited one of these myself and I assure you that whatever has been printed on them to date has been understatement. If you would see any advantage in asking about a dozen leaders of Congress and a dozen prominent editors to brand a short visit to this theater in a couple of C-54's, I volition suit to accept them conducted to i of these places where the prove of bestiality and cruelty is and so overpowering as to get out no doubt in their minds about the normal practices of the Germans in these camps."
Cable, DDE to George C. Marshall, iv/xix/45 [The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The War Years IV, doc #2424]
"When I found the first campsite similar that I think I never was so angry in my life. The bestiality displayed there was non merely piled upwards bodies of people that had starved to decease, but to follow out the road and see where they tried to evacuate them so they could still work, you could see where they sprawled on the road. You could go to their burying pits and see horrors that actually I wouldn't even want to begin to describe. I remember people ought to know nigh such things. It explains something of my attitude toward the German war criminal. I believe he must be punished, and I will hold out for that forever."
Press conference, half-dozen/xviii/45 [DDE'south Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box 156, Printing Statements and Releases, 1944-46 (1)]
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Korean War
"Nosotros accept now gained a truce in Korea. We practice not greet it with wild rejoicing. Nosotros know how dear its cost has been in life and treasure."
Radio Report to the American People on the Achievements of the Assistants and the 83d Congress, 8/6/53[AUDIO]
"Evidently all of the states know that the composition that was reached in Korea is not satisfactory to America, only it is far better than to go on the bloody, dreary, sacrifice of lives with no possible strictly military victory in sight."
Address at the Illinois State Off-white at Springfield, eight/19/54[AUDIO]
"And of course, there was the state of war in Korea, a state of war around which in that location had grown up such a political situation that armed services victory, at least a decisive armed forces victory, was no longer in the cards."
Radio and Tv set Address to the American People on the Achievements of the 83rd Congress, 8/23/54 [AUDIO]
"In June of last yr we negotiated a truce which concluded the Korean War, preserved the South korea's liberty, and frustrated the Communist design for conquest."
Address at the American Legion Convention, 8/xxx/54 [Audio]
Labor
I take no use for those — regardless of their political political party — who concur some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, most helpless mass.
Speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, ix/17/52
Today in America unions have a secure identify in our industrial life. Merely a handful of unreconstructed reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions. But a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.
Speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, 9/17/52
Government can do a great bargain to aid 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 mediation and conciliation.
Land of the Union Message, Washington, DC, 2/2/53[Sound]
Leadership/Organization
"What is Leadership?" by Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Yous accept got to take something in which to believe. You have got to have leaders, organization, friendships, and contacts that help you to believe that, and help y'all to put out your all-time."
Remarks to the Leaders of the United Defence force Fund, iv/29/54 [AUDIO]
"At present I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to practice something that yous desire done because he wants to do it, non considering your position of ability tin hogtie him to do information technology, or your position of authority. A commander of a regiment is not necessarily a leader. He has all of the appurtenances of power given by a set of Army regulations by which he tin can compel unified activity. He can say to a trunk such as this, "Rise," and "Sit down." Yous exercise information technology exactly. But that is not leadership."
Remarks at the Almanac Briefing of the Society for Personnel Administration, 5/12/54[Sound]
"The chore of getting people actually wanting to do something is the essence of leadership. And i of the things a leader needs occasionally is the inspiration he gets from the people he leads. The former tactical textbooks say that the commander always visits his troops to inspire them to fight. I for i soon discovered that one of the reasons for my visiting the front lines was to get inspiration from the young American soldier. I went back to my job aback of my own occasional resentments or discouragements, which I probably -- at least I promise I concealed them."
Remarks at the Breakfast Meeting of Republican Country Chairmen, Denver, Colorado, 9/10/55
"Every bit long as I am back in my military life for a second, I should like to detect one affair about leadership that one of the great has said -- Napoleon. He said, the groovy leader, the genius in leadership, is the man who can practise the average affair when everybody else is going crazy."
Address at Coming together Sponsored by the Republican National Committee, 4/17/56
"The essence of leadership is to become others to do something because they think you desire it 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's Gettysburg Farm, 9/12/56
"Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost whatsoever other I know."
The President's News Conference of 11/14/56
"My life has been largely spent in diplomacy that required organization. But organization itself, necessary as it is, is never sufficient to win a boxing."
Remarks to Participants in the Young Republican National Leadership Training School, 1/20/60[AUDIO]
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Peace
"Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if at that place is to be a happy and well earth."
Remarks at the Section of Country 1954 Accolade Awards Ceremony, 10/19/54[AUDIO]
"In that location tin be no true disarmament without peace, and there tin can be no real peace without very material disarmament."
Remarks at the Republican Women'south National Conference, v/10/55[AUDIO]
"The peace we seek and need means much more mere absenteeism of war. It ways the acceptance of police force, and the fostering of justice, in all the world."
Radio and Boob tube Study to the American People on the Developments in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, 10/31/56[Sound]
"In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They volition spend the solar day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they volition withal know hunger. They will see suffering in the optics of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against affliction. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever gratis men lose hope of progress, freedom will exist weakened and the seeds of disharmonize will be sown."
Remarks of Welcome to the Delegates to the Tenth Colombo Plan Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 11/ten/58[AUDIO]
"I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to practise more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people desire peace and so much that 1 of these days governments had meliorate become out of the way and let them have it."
Radio and Telly Broadcast With Prime number Minister Macmillan in London, 8/31/59
"So -- our readiness to come across and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon united states of america, both equally a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of assail. This alertness to danger has to exist translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights -- our way of life -- can exist seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights."
Letter from DDE to Hallock Chocolate-brown Hoffman, February 7, 1955
"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 earth peace."
The President'south News Conference, March 23, 1955 [AUDIO]
"As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to practice anything, to encounter with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do then in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this not bad cause of peace."
Remarks at the Republican Women's National Conference, May 10, 1955[Sound]
"For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience nosotros will continue, as long every bit I remain your President, to work for this simple -- this unmarried -- this exclusive goal."
Accost at Byrd Field, Richmond, Virginia, Oct 29, 1956[AUDIO]
"The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will exist difficult. And to reach it, we must be aware of its full meaning -- and ready to pay its full price."
2d Inaugural Accost, Jan 21, 1957[AUDIO]
"For all that we cherish and justly want -- for ourselves or for our children -- the securing of peace is the first requisite."
Radio and Television Accost to the American People on the Demand for Mutual Security in Waging the Peace, May 21, 1957
"Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of liberty on this earth, we must be prepared to make any sacrifices are demanded as nosotros pursue this path to its end."
Remarks at the Fort Pitt Chapter, Association of the United States Regular army May 31, 1961
The Presidency
"My first day at the President's Desk-bound. Plenty of worries and difficult issues. But such has been my portion for a long time -- the result is that this just 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 Diary]
"I would say that the Presidency is probably the nearly taxing chore, as far as tiring of the mind and spirit; but it besides has, as I have said earlier, its inspirations which tend to counteract each other . . . There have been times in war where I thought nothing could be quite as wearing and trigger-happy as that with lives directly involved. Merely I would say, on the whole, this is the most wearing, although not necessarily, as I say, the most tiring."
The President'southward News Conference at Key West, Florida, i/8/56
"Many people are always proverb the Presidency is too big a job for any ane man. When I hear this exclamation, I e'er endeavour to bespeak out that a single man must make the final decisions that affect the whole, but that proper organisation brings to him but the questions and bug on which his decisions are needed. His own task is to be mentally prepared to make those decisions and and then to exist supported by an organization that volition make sure they are carried out."
Letter, DDE to Dillon Anderson, ane/22/68 [DDE's Post-Presidential Papers, 1968 Principal File, Box 36, "An"]
"On the other hand, I constitute that getting things done sometimes required other weapons from the Presidential arsenal -- persuasion, cajolery, fifty-fifty a niggling head-thumping here and in that location -- to say nothing of a personal streak of obstinacy which on occasion fires my boilers."
Some Thoughts on the Presidency, Reader's Assimilate, November 1968
Religion
"In other words, our class of government has no sense unless it is founded in a securely felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is."
Accost at the Freedoms Foundation, Waldorf-Astoria, New York Urban center, New York, 12/22/52
"Today I call back that prayer is just simply a necessity, because by prayer I believe nosotros mean an effort to get in touch on with the Infinite. We know that even our prayers are imperfect. Even our supplications are imperfect. Of form they are. We are imperfect man beings. Just if nosotros tin back off from those problems and make the effort, so there is something that ties u.s. all together. We have begun in our grasp of that footing of understanding, which is that all costless government is firmly founded in a deeply-felt religious religion."
Remarks at the Dedicatory Prayer Breakfast of the International Christian Leadership, 2/5/53
"The churches of America are citadels of our organized religion in individual freedom and human dignity. This religion is the living source of all our spiritual forcefulness. And this strength is our matchless armor in our earth-wide struggle against the forces of godless tyranny and oppression."
Message to the National Co-Chairmen, Commission of Religious Organizations, National Conference on Christians and Jews, 7/9/53
"From this solar day forwards, the millions of our school children volition daily proclaim in every metropolis and town, every hamlet and rural schoolhouse house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. To anyone who truly loves America, cypher could exist more inspiring than to contemplate this rededication of our youth, on each school morn, to our country's true meaning.
Especially is this meaningful equally we regard today's world. Over the globe, 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 past the prospect of atomic war. In this somber setting, this police force and its effects today have profound significant. In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and futurity; in this style we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever volition be our state'due south near powerful resource, in peace or in war."
Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill to Include the Words "Under 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 idea and discussion and human action."
Address at the Second Associates of the World Council of Churches, Evanston, Illinois, eight/19/54 [Sound]
"We are essentially a religious people. Nosotros are not but religious, we are inclined, more than today than ever, to run across the value of religion as a practical force in our affairs."
Address at the Second Associates of the World Council of Churches, Evanston, Illinois, eight/19/54[AUDIO]
"Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American fashion of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first -- the most basic -- expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw information technology, and thus, with God'southward help, it will continue to be."
Remarks Recorded for the "Back-to-God" Program of the American Legion, 2/20/55
"Since the day of creation, the fondest hopes of men and women have been to pass on to their children something better than they themselves enjoyed. That hope represents a spark of the Divine which is implanted in every human breast."
Accost at the Signing of the Annunciation of Principles at the Coming together of the Presidents in Panama City, seven/22/56
"The purpose is Divine; the implementation is homo. Our country and its government have made mistakes -- human mistakes. They have been of the head -- not of the heart. And it is yet truthful that the great concept of the nobility of all men, akin created in the image of the Almighty, has been the compass by which nosotros have tried and are trying to steer our course."
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Wedlock, 1/10/57
"Bones to our democratic civilization are the principles and convictions that have bound usa together every bit a nation. Amid these are personal liberty, human rights, and the dignity of human being. All these accept their roots in a deeply held religious religion -- in a belief in God."
Address at U.S. Naval University Offset, 6/4/58
"The freedom of a citizen and the freedom of a religious laic are more than intimately related; they are mutually dependent. These two liberties give 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 [Sound]
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Sports
"My constant prayer, these days, equally I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper."
Letter, DDE to Bobby Jones, 7/28/51 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 63, Jones, Robert Tyre Jr.]
"The other solar day Aks and I went upward to your ranch for a day's angling. I cannot recall whatsoever day when we take had more fun on a stream. Nosotros had along with united states of america three newspaper men and a few surreptitious service people, many of whom had never seen a trout stream, so we did the thing up right by borrowing frying pans, bacon and corn meal from the married woman of your rancher -- and we cooked an outdoor meal for the crowd. It was really quite a day."
Letter of the alphabet, DDE to Bal F. Swan, viii/fifteen/53 [DDE's Papers as President, Name Serial, Box 7, "Denver, 1953"]
"One of the things that I noticed in war was how hard information technology was for our soldiers, at outset, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth."
Remarks at the Conference of the National Women's Advisory Committee on Ceremonious Defence, ten/26/54 [AUDIO]
"And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he idea it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they fabricated their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football game, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds."
Radio and Television Circulate: "The Women Enquire the President," x/24/56
"But I call back a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or 3 times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf game and span -- and whenever I felt similar talking or writing, doing information technology with abandon and with no sense of responsibleness whatsoever -- maybe such a life wouldn't be then bad."
Letter, DDE to Alfred M. Gruenther, 11/2/56 [The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Volume XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Way, Part XI, Chapter 22]
"I accept just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Regular army Navy State Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such fantabulous condition. I assure you that I get a great bargain of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional tardily afternoon hour . . ."
Letter, DDE to Rear Admiral John Southward. Phillips, iv/12/57 [DDE's Papers equally President, President's Personal File, Box 10, 1-A-7 Golf game (4)]
"Not but do I accept a bang-up dear for the game of golf game -- no thing how badly I play information technology -- but I accept as well the belief that through every kind of coming together, through every kind of activity to which we tin can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that mensurate we will practice something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor sometime world seems nowadays to and so much suffer."
Remarks to Representatives of Earth Amateur Golf Team Championship Conference, v/two/58[Audio]
"Probably no ane here knows I coached a football team -- a service team -- playing confronting Georgetown. I call back information technology was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your double-decker, and he beat us. Only it was a very happy circumstance, because information technology brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Lilliputian, who to this day remains my very warm acquaintance and friend."
Remarks at the Dedication of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown Academy, 10/13/58[AUDIO]
"Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the aforementioned reason, golf game, angling, and shooting, and I do because first, they have you into the fields. In that location is mild exercise, the kind that an older private probably should accept. And on top of it, information technology induces you to take at any 1 fourth dimension 2 or 3 hours, if yous can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, benign kind of affair, and I practice it whenever I get a take a chance, equally you well know."
The President's Press Conference of 10/15/58[AUDIO]
"Morale -- the will to win, the fighting middle -- are the honored hallmarks of the football jitney and histrion. Besides, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the defended teacher and scientist."
Remarks at the Get-go Football Hall of Fame Dinner, New York City, New York, 10/28/58[AUDIO]
"I think of going back to the sports field once again, and let'south accept a baseball game game. Well, you take cracked out a grounder and yous put in your final ounce of energy and y'all merely happen to make first base. Just y'all don't finish there. First base is the get-go. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your free energy -- and you count on your teammates, yous count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run."
Remarks at a Republican Men's Luncheon in Cleveland, Ohio xi/4/lx [AUDIO]
"Yous did not tell me what y'all are doing athletically just at present but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring you tin can become information technology in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't make it and then I suggest you have up golf game which after all is the best game of all of them."
Letter, DDE to grandson David Eisenhower, 11/17/65 [DDE's Post Presidential Papers, Secretary's Series, Box 13, Eisenhower]
"Just I noted with existent satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard -- about slavish -- work, squad play, cocky-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication."
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War/Defense
"I accept been called a Fascist and almost a Hitlerite - actually, I have one earnest conviction in this war. It is that no other war in history has then definitely lined up the forces of capricious oppression and dictatorship confronting those of human rights and individual freedom."
Letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to John Due south.D. Eisenhower, April 8, 1943 [Eisenhower's Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 173, Eisenhower John Southward.D. 1943-1946 (2)]
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclamation earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends."
Guildhall Address, London, 6/12/45 [Audio]
"War is a grim, fell concern, a concern justified but as a means of sustaining the forces of good confronting those of evil."
Transcription made for National State of war Fund at request of Col. Luther L. Hill, 9/11/45
"I hate state of war as simply a soldier who has lived it tin, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Address before the Canadian Club, Ottawa, Canada, 1/10/46
"Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless in that location is a solid spirit, a solid center, and bang-up productiveness behind it."
Address to Economic Guild of New York, Hotel Astor, xi/20/46
"War is mankind's almost tragic and stupid folly; to seek or suggest its deliberate provocation is a black law-breaking against all men. Though you follow the merchandise of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to disharmonize."
Graduation Exercises at the Usa Armed services Academy, 6/iii/47
"Maybe my hatred of war blinds me and so that I cannot cover the arguments they adduce. Just, in my opinion, there is no such affair every bit a preventive war. Although this proposition is repeatedly made, none has all the same explained how war prevents state of war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the weather that beget war."
Remarks at Carnegie Establish, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE'south Pre-Presidential Papers, Main File, Box 196, Carnegie Institute]
"Considering, therefore, nosotros are defending a fashion of life, nosotros must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. Nosotros must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from inside what nosotros are trying to defend from without."
Spoken language before NATO Quango, xi/26/51 [DDE's Pre-Pres. Papers, Box 197]
"Americans, indeed, all free men, retrieve that in the final pick a soldier's pack is non and then heavy a brunt every bit a prisoner's chains."
Inaugural Address, 1/xx/53[Sound]
"Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter fourth dimension: 'When a potent man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'."
Statement on the Fourth Ceremony of the Signing of the Due north Atlantic Treaty, 4/4/53
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the terminal sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This earth in arms is not spending coin alone. Information technology is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than than xxx cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a boondocks of sixty,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half 1000000 bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could take housed more than than 8,000 people. This, I echo, is the best way of life to be plant on the route. the world has been taking. This is non a mode of life at all, in any true sense. Nether the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cantankerous of fe."
Address "The Gamble for Peace" Delivered Before the American Order of Paper Editors, four/16/53 [Sound]
"Nosotros do not proceed security establishments only to defend belongings or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We go on the security forces to defend a way of life."
Remarks to the Committee for Economic Development, 5/20/54 [AUDIO]
"A preventive state of war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could y'all have i if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war."
The President's News Briefing of eight/11/54 [Audio]
"And the next thing is that every state of war is going to astonish you in the manner it occurred, and in the way it is carried out."
The President's News Conference of 3/23/55
"I have spent my life in the study of armed services force as a deterrent to state of war, and in the character of armed forces armaments necessary to win a state of war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, only we are chop-chop getting to the bespeak that no war can exist won."
Alphabetic character, DDE to Richard L. Simon, Simon and Schuster, Inc., four/iv/56 [DDE'southward Papers as President, DDE Diaries Series, Box 14, April 1956 Miscellaneous (5)]
"When we go to the point, every bit nosotros ane day volition, that both sides know that in whatsoever outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, maybe we volition have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must suit its deportment to this truth or dice."
Alphabetic character, DDE to Richard L. Simon, Simon and Schuster, Inc., 4/4/56 [DDE'south Papers as President, DDE Diaries Serial, Box fourteen, April 1956 Miscellaneous (5)]
"Artillery lonely can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense -- to protect from violent assault what we already take. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress."
Accost earlier the American Society of Paper Editors, Statler Hotel, Washington, DC, 4/21/56[AUDIO]
"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 fourth dimension, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just every bit the war did."
The President's News Conference of half dozen/6/56
"The only mode to win the adjacent world state of war is to prevent it."
Address at a Rally in the Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, 10/17/56
"Nosotros must be strong at home if we are going to be strong away. We understand that. So we want to be strong at home in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our didactics, in our economic system and, where necessary, militarily."
Radio and Television set Circulate: "The Women Ask the President," x/24/56
"The hope of the world is that wisdom can abort conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I notice grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes similar a storm and cataclysm comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God."
Address at the Centennial Commemoration Banquet of the National Education Association, 4/4/57[Audio]
"First, split footing, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If always again nosotros should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, every bit one single concentrated try."
Special Message to the Congress on Reorganization of the Defence Institution, 4/iii/58
"Now this brings me to my chief topic -- our military force -- more than specifically, how to stay potent against threat from exterior, without undermining the economic wellness that supports our security."
Address to the American Lodge of Newspaper Editors and the International Press Institute, 4/17/58
"First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World 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 Gild of Newspaper Editors and the International Printing Institute, 4/17/58
"Now all of us deplore this vast war machine spending. All the same, in the face of the Soviet mental attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatsoever the price, America will keep itself secure. But in the procedure we must not, past our own mitt, destroy or distort the American organisation. This we could exercise by useless overspending. I know ane sure mode to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts."
Address to the American Order of Newspaper Editors and the International Press Plant, 4/17/58
"I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. Simply, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations once again fearfully do a policy of continuing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the minor and weak."
Radio and Television Written report to the American People Regarding the State of affairs in the Formosa Straits, 9/eleven/58
"Any survey of the free globe's defence force structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our try and resources must exist devoted to armaments."
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Wedlock, 1/ix/59
"Simply all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights -- by attempting to placate assailment."
Radio and Television Report to the American People: Security in the Complimentary Globe, 3/sixteen/59
"In this promise, amidst the things we teach to the young are such truths every bit the transcendent value of the individual and the nobility of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of homo values."
Address at the Opening Session of the White House Briefing on Children and Youth, College Park, Maryland, iii/27/60
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the conquering of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, past the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous ascent of misplaced power exists and will persist."
Good day 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 like shooting fish in a barrel in war. Mistakes are ever paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders."
Crusade in Europe, page 450
"We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security."
Waging Peace, folio 622
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