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Quotes
Agronomics
"The proper role of government, still, 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 exist a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that subcontract living may be a profitable and satisfying experience."
Special Message to the Congress on Agriculture, i/ix/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 Academy, Peoria, Illinois, 9/25/56
Anecdotes
"I come from the very heart of America."
Guildhall Speech, London, vi/12/45 
"The proudest affair I tin can merits is that I am from Abilene."
Homecoming Speech, Abilene, Kansas, half-dozen/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 13]
"Any America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come up to pass in the centre of America."
Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, 1/20/53
"For history does non long entrust the intendance of freedom to the weak or the timid."
Inaugural Accost, Washington, DC, ane/20/53
"A people that values its privileges higher up its principles presently loses both."
Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, 1/20/53
"There is -- in earth affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
State of the Marriage Accost, 2/two/53
"Thank goodness, many years ago, I had a preceptor, for whom my admiration has never died, and he had a favorite saying, one that I trust I effort to live by. It was: ever take your job seriously, never yourself."
Accost at the New England "Forward to '54" Dinner, Boston, Massachusetts, 9/21/53
"I was raised in a little boondocks of which most of you have never heard. Only in the West it is a famous place. It is called Abilene, Kansas. Nosotros had as our marshal for a long time a human named Wild Bill Hickok. If you lot don't know anything about him, read your Westerns more. Now that town had a code, and I was raised as a boy to prize that code. It was: meet anyone face to face up with whom you disagree. You could not sneak upward on him from backside, or do whatsoever damage to him, without suffering the penalty of an outraged citizenry. If you met him face to face and took the same risks he did, you could get away with almost annihilation, as long every bit the bullet was in the front."
Remarks Upon Receiving America's Democratic Legacy Award at a B'nai B'rith Dinner in Award of the 40th Ceremony of the Anti-Defamation League, 11/23/53
"At that place is an quondam saw in the services: that which is non inspected deteriorates."
The President's News Conference of 5/12/54
"Well, it is very important, and the great idea of setting up an organism is so equally to defeat the domino result. When, each standing alone, i falls, information technology has the result on the next, and finally the whole row is downwardly. You are trying, through a unifying influence, to build that row of dominoes and then they tin can stand the fall of one, if necessary."
The President's News Briefing of 5/12/54
"When I was a male child, I was i of six in my family. Nosotros had a quarrel daily as to who could go upward and do the chore of bringing the groceries down dwelling. They had a practice then, in grocery stores, that I sympathise growing efficiency has eliminated -- always hoping that the grocer would say yous tin can take one of the dried prunes out of the barrel over there. But better than that was the dill pickle jar that you could dive into, sometimes arm deep about, and effort to get ane. I understand that they are not that accommodating anymore; we have got too efficient. When yous get around picking things off the shelf, yous pay for them. These, you sympathize, were free. That meant a lot to young boys to whom a nickel looked about as big every bit a wheel on a subcontract wagon."
Remarks at the Convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers, 6/sixteen/54
"Now I realize that on any particular decision a very nifty amount of heat tin exist generated. Simply I do say this: life is not made up of just 1 decision hither, or another one there. It is the total of the decisions that you make in your daily lives with respect to politics, to your family, to your environment, to the people nearly yous. Regime has to do that same thing. It is only in the mass that finally philosophy actually emerges."
Remarks at Tiffin Coming together of the Republican National Commission and the Republican National Finance Committee, 2/17/55
"Today there is a neat ideological struggle going on in the world. 1 side upholds what information technology calls the materialistic dialectic. Denying the existence of spiritual values, it maintains that homo responds only to materialistic influences and consequently he is cipher. He is an educated animal and is useful only as he serves the ambitions -- desires -- of a ruling clique; though they endeavor to brand 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 right away that human is non only an animal, that his life and his ambitions have at the lesser a foundation of spiritual values."
Remarks at 11th Annual Washington Conference of the Advertising Council, iii/22/55
"Some political leader some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote."
Remarks at the Breakfast Coming together of Republican State Chairmen, Denver, Colorado, 9/ten/55
"Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos."
Accost at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, viii/23/56
"1 American put information technology this way: 'Every tomorrow has 2 handles. We can take concord of information technology with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith'."
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, viii/23/56
"The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good."
The President's News Conference of viii/31/56
"I believe when yous are in any contest y'all should work like in that location is e'er to the very last minute a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is annihilation. Then I merely see no excuse if you lot believe anything enough for not putting your whole centre into information technology. Information technology is what I practise."
The President'due south News Briefing of 9/27/56
"I belong to a family of boys who were raised in meager circumstances in cardinal Kansas, and every one of us earned our way as we went along, and it never occurred to us that we were poor, but we were."
Television set Broadcast: "The People Ask the President," x/12/56
"The hope of the world is that wisdom tin arrest disharmonize between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds."
Address, National Education Association, Washington, DC, 4/4/57
"I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Regular army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."
Remarks at the National Defence Executive Reserve Briefing, xi/14/57
"Simply these calculations overlook the decisive element: what counts is non necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -- information technology'due south the size of the fight in the dog."
Excerpts From Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast, 1/31/58
"But finally, there 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 humour."
Address at U. S. Naval University Commencement, 6/4/58
"A famous Frenchman one time said, 'State of war has become far too of import to entrust to the generals.' Today, business, I think, should be saying: 'Politics have become far as well of import to entrust to the politicians'."
Remarks, Business Council, Hot Springs, Virginia, x/twenty/62
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Censorship
"Censorship, in my stance, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to whatever trouble. Though sometimes necessary, as witness a professional and technical secret that may have a bearing upon the welfare and very condom of this country, we should be very careful in the manner we apply it, because in censorship always lurks the very corking danger of working to the disadvantage of the American nation."
Associated Press lunch, New York, New York, iv/24/50
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to muffle faults by concealing show that they always existed. Don't be afraid to get in your library and read every volume, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should exist the only censorship."
Remarks at the Dartmouth College Start Exercises, Hanover, New Hampshire, 6/14/53[Audio]
Children/Youth/Families
"Youth -- our greatest resource -- is beingness seriously neglected in a vital respect. The nation equally a whole is not preparing teachers or building schools fast enough to go along upwards with the increment in our population."
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Wedlock, one/7/54[AUDIO]
"I say with all the earnestness that I tin can control, that if American mothers will teach our children that at that place is no end to the fight for better relationships among the people of the world, we shall have peace."
Accost to the National Quango of Catholic Women, Boston, Massachusetts, xi/8/54
"In this connection, I should mention our enormous national debt. We must begin to make 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 Spousal relationship Message, Cardinal Westward, Florida, i/5/56[Audio]
"Teachers demand our agile support and encouragement. They are doing one of the nigh necessary and exacting jobs in the country. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens."
Accost at the Centennial Commemoration Banquet of the National Education Association, iv/4/57 [Sound]
"At present, the instruction of our children is of national business concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity."
The President's News Conference of 7/31/57 [Audio]
"I am non here, of form, every bit i pretending to any 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 House Briefing on Children and Youth, Higher Park, Maryland, iii/27/threescore [Audio]
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Citizenship
"Republic is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the police force." -Address to Constituent Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August eight, 1946
"The liberty of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America's strength." - Address at Norwich Academy, Northfield, Vermont, June 9, 1946
"The proudest human being that walks the earth is a complimentary American denizen." -Talk at the Commercial Club of Chicago, May 21, 1948
"A people that values its privileges to a higher place its principles soon loses both." -Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"I believe the only style to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others." -Remarks at the United Negro College Fund luncheon, May 19, 1953
"I believe as long equally we allow conditions to exist that brand for 2d-form citizens, we are making of ourselves less than offset-class citizens." -Remarks at the United Negro College Fund tiffin, May 19, 1953
"The general limits of your freedom are just these: that you exercise non trespass upon the equal rights of others." -Remarks to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 22, 1954
"The history of costless men is never really written past take chances--but by choice--their choice." -Address in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October nine, 1956
"A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for police." - Address to the American People on the situation in Piffling Rock, Arkansas, September 24, 1957
"Freedom nether law is like the air we exhale." -Remarks on the Observance of Law Day, April 30, 1958
"It is only as nosotros govern ourselves that we are well-governed." -Remarks on the Observance of Law Day, April 30, 1958
Ceremonious Rights
"I suggest to use whatever authorisation exists in the office of the President to stop segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and whatsoever segregation in the Armed Forces."
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, 2/2/53 [AUDIO]
"Nosotros have erased segregation in those areas of national life to which Federal potency clearly extends. So doing in this, my friends, we accept neither sought nor claimed partisan credit, and all such actions are nil more -- nothing less than the rendering of justice. And we take ever been aware of this swell truth: the final battle confronting intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men."
Address at the Hollywood Bowl, Beverly Hills, California, 10/19/56[AUDIO]
"It was my promise that this localized situation would be brought under command by urban center and State authorities. If the employ of local police powers had been sufficient, our traditional method of leaving the problems in those hands would take been pursued. But when large gatherings of obstructionists made it impossible for the decrees of the Courtroom to be carried out, both the law and the national interest demanded that the President take action."
Radio and Boob tube Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Rock 9/24/57[AUDIO]
"I do not believe that all of these bug can be solved just by a new law, or something that someone says, with teeth in it. For example, when nosotros got into the Trivial Rock matter, it was non my province to talk about segregation or desegregation. I had the task of supporting a federal court that had issued a proper club under the Constitution, and where compliance was prevented past activeness that was unlawful."
The President's News Conference of 3/26/58
"I believe that the Usa as a government, if information technology is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that fourth dimension when in that location is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason every bit race, color, or religion."
The President's News Conference of v/xiii/59
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Teaching
"The true purpose of pedagogy is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a complimentary form of government."
Spoken communication at William and Mary Higher, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 15, 1953 [Audio]
"It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a sure price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative."
Address, Centennial Celebration Banquet of the National Educational activity Association, Washington, DC, 4/4/57[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 not very well call the next play until he saw how the last play turned out. Well, that may be a good way to run a football game team, but in these days it is no fashion 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 audio in trunk and mind and spirit. Government dares not ignore the individual citizen."
Address at a Rally in the Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, 10/ane/56[AUDIO]
"Nosotros cannot safely confine regime programs to our own domestic progress and our own military power. We could be the wealthiest and the almost mighty nation and still lose the battle of the world if we do not help our globe neighbors protect their freedom and accelerate their social and economical progress. It is not the goal of the American people that the United states should be the richest nation in the graveyard of history."
Special Message to the Congress on the Mutual Security Programme, 3/13/59
Holocaust
"Only the virtually interesting -- although horrible -- sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment army camp well-nigh Gotha. The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the army camp I encountered iii 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 animality were then overpowering every bit to leave me a chip sick. In i room, where they [there] were piled up twenty or xxx naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would non even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to requite commencement-mitt evidence of these things if e'er, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda'."
Alphabetic character, DDE to George C. Marshall, 4/xv/45 [The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The War Years Four, medico #2418]
"We continue to uncover German concentration camps for political prisoners in which conditions of indescribable horror prevail. I have visited ane of these myself and I clinch you that whatever has been printed on them to date has been understatement. If you would come across any advantage in asking near a dozen leaders of Congress and a dozen prominent editors to make a short visit to this theater in a couple of C-54'due south, I will arrange to have them conducted to one of these places where the prove of bestiality and cruelty is so overpowering as to leave no doubt in their minds nigh the normal practices of the Germans in these camps."
Cable, DDE to George C. Marshall, 4/19/45 [The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The War Years IV, dr. #2424]
"When I plant the commencement campsite like that I think I never was so angry in my life. The animality displayed there was not merely piled upwards bodies of people that had starved to expiry, but to follow out the road and see where they tried to evacuate them and so they could still work, you lot could run into where they sprawled on the road. You lot could go to their burial pits and meet horrors that really I wouldn't even desire to begin to draw. 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 concord out for that forever."
Press conference, 6/18/45 [DDE'due south Pre-Presidential Papers, Main File, Box 156, Press Statements and Releases, 1944-46 (1)]
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Korean War
"We take now gained a truce in Korea. We do not greet it with wild rejoicing. We know how dear its cost has been in life and treasure."
Radio Report to the American People on the Achievements of the Administration and the 83d Congress, eight/6/53[Sound]
"Plain all of us know that the composition that was reached in Korea is non satisfactory to America, but it is far better than to go along the bloody, dreary, sacrifice of lives with no possible strictly armed services victory in sight."
Address at the Illinois State Fair at Springfield, 8/nineteen/54[AUDIO]
"And of form, there was the war in Korea, a war around which there had grown up such a political situation that military victory, at least a decisive military victory, was no longer in the cards."
Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Achievements of the 83rd Congress, eight/23/54 [Audio]
"In June of terminal year nosotros negotiated a truce which ended the Korean State of war, preserved the Democracy of Korea'south freedom, and frustrated the Communist pattern for conquest."
Address at the American Legion Convention, 8/30/54 [Sound]
Labor
I have no utilize for those — regardless of their political party — who agree some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.
Speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, 9/17/52
Today in America unions have a secure place in our industrial life. But a scattering of unreconstructed reactionaries harbor the ugly idea of breaking unions. Just a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the correct to join the union of their pick.
Speech communication to the American Federation of Labor, New York Metropolis, 9/17/52
Government can do a great deal to assistance the settlement of labor disputes without allowing itself to exist employed as an ally of either side. Its proper role in industrial strife is to encourage the process of mediation and conciliation.
State of the Wedlock Message, Washington, DC, 2/2/53[Audio]
Leadership/Organization
"What is Leadership?" past Dwight D. Eisenhower
"You have got to take something in which to believe. You take got to have leaders, organization, friendships, and contacts that help you to believe that, and help you to put out your all-time."
Remarks to the Leaders of the United Defense Fund, 4/29/54 [AUDIO]
"Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership nosotros mean the art of getting someone else to practise something that yous want done because he wants to do it, not because your position of ability can compel him to practise it, or your position of say-so. A commander of a regiment is non necessarily a leader. He has all of the goods of power given by a fix of Ground forces regulations by which he can compel unified action. He can say to a body such as this, "Rise," and "Sit down." You do it exactly. Merely that is not leadership."
Remarks at the Annual Conference of the Society for Personnel Administration, 5/12/54[AUDIO]
"The job of getting people actually wanting to do something is the essence of leadership. And 1 of the things a leader needs occasionally is the inspiration he gets from the people he leads. The erstwhile tactical textbooks say that the commander always visits his troops to inspire them to fight. I for one before long discovered that i of the reasons for my visiting the front lines was to get inspiration from the young American soldier. I went back to my job ashamed of my ain occasional resentments or discouragements, which I probably -- at least I hope I concealed them."
Remarks at the Breakfast Meeting of Republican State Chairmen, Denver, Colorado, 9/10/55
"As long as I am back in my armed forces life for a second, I should similar to observe ane thing about leadership that 1 of the peachy has said -- Napoleon. He said, the smashing leader, the genius in leadership, is the man who tin do the average thing when everybody else is going crazy."
Address at Meeting Sponsored by the Republican National Committee, iv/17/56
"The essence of leadership is to get others to do something considering they recall you want information technology done and because they know it is worth while doing -- that is what nosotros are talking virtually."
Remarks at the Republican Campaign Picnic at the President's Gettysburg Subcontract, 9/12/56
"Leadership is a discussion and a concept that has been more argued than almost whatever other I know."
The President'due south News Conference of 11/14/56
"My life has been largely spent in affairs that required organization. But organisation itself, necessary as information technology is, is never sufficient to win a boxing."
Remarks to Participants in the Young Republican National Leadership Preparation Schoolhouse, 1/20/60[AUDIO]
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Peace
"Since the appearance of nuclear weapons, information technology seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world."
Remarks at the Section of State 1954 Honor Awards Anniversary, x/xix/54[AUDIO]
"There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there tin can be no existent peace without very material disarmament."
Remarks at the Republican Women's National Conference, v/x/55[Sound]
"The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absenteeism of war. It ways the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world."
Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Developments in Eastern Europe and the Center East, 10/31/56[AUDIO]
"In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they volition yet know hunger. They volition run across suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will always decently shelter their families or protect them confronting disease. So long as this is so, peace and liberty volition be in danger throughout our earth. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty volition be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown."
Remarks of Welcome to the Delegates to the 10th Colombo Plan Coming together, Seattle, Washington, 11/x/58[AUDIO]
"I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and permit them have it."
Radio and Television Broadcast With Prime Minister Macmillan in London, 8/31/59
"And then -- our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon the states, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alacrity to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights -- our mode of life -- can exist seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights."
Letter from DDE to Hallock Chocolate-brown Hoffman, Feb 7, 1955
"I have said time and again there is no identify on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, past so doing, I would promote the general cause of globe peace."
The President'south News Conference, March 23, 1955 [AUDIO]
"Every bit for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to encounter with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and in that location is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great crusade of peace."
Remarks at the Republican Women'south National Conference, May ten, 1955[AUDIO]
"For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to y'all: by dedication and patience nosotros volition continue, equally long as I remain your President, to work for this simple -- this single -- this exclusive goal."
Accost at Byrd Field, Richmond, Virginia, October 29, 1956[Sound]
"The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it volition be difficult. And to achieve it, we must exist aware of its total meaning -- and fix to pay its full price."
2d Inaugural Address, Jan 21, 1957[AUDIO]
"For all that we cherish and justly desire -- for ourselves or for our children -- the securing of peace is the first requisite."
Radio and Tv Address to the American People on the Need 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 freedom on this earth, we must exist prepared to brand any sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end."
Remarks at the Fort Pitt Chapter, Association of the United States Army May 31, 1961
The Presidency
"My first day at the President'due south Desk. Plenty of worries and difficult problems. Merely such has been my portion for a long fourth dimension -- 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 most taxing job, as far as tiring of the mind and spirit; but it besides has, as I have said before, its inspirations which tend to annul each other . . . There accept been times in war where I thought nothing could be quite as wearing and violent as that with lives straight 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 Primal West, Florida, 1/8/56
"Many people are always saying the Presidency is too big a job for any one man. When I hear this assertion, I always try to point out that a single man must make the final decisions that affect the whole, but that proper organization brings to him only the questions and issues on which his decisions are needed. His own job is to be mentally prepared to make those decisions and so to exist supported past an organization that volition make sure they are carried out."
Letter of the alphabet, DDE to Dillon Anderson, one/22/68 [DDE'south Post-Presidential Papers, 1968 Principal File, Box 36, "An"]
"On the other hand, I plant that getting things done sometimes required other weapons from the Presidential armory -- persuasion, cajolery, fifty-fifty a niggling head-thumping here and at that place -- to say nothing of a personal streak of obstinacy which on occasion fires my boilers."
Some Thoughts on the Presidency, Reader's Digest, November 1968
Religion
"In other words, our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a securely felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is."
Address at the Freedoms Foundation, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, New York, 12/22/52
"Today I call up that prayer is but simply a necessity, considering by prayer I believe we mean an effort to get in touch on with the Infinite. We know that fifty-fifty our prayers are imperfect. Even our supplications are imperfect. Of course they are. Nosotros are imperfect human beings. Just if we can back off from those problems and brand the effort, so in that location is something that ties us all together. We have begun in our grasp of that basis of understanding, which is that all free government is firmly founded in a deeply-felt religious organized religion."
Remarks at the Dedicatory Prayer Breakfast of the International Christian Leadership, ii/5/53
"The churches of America are citadels of our organized religion in private freedom and homo nobility. This religion is the living source of all our spiritual force. And this forcefulness is our matchless armor in our world-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, vii/ix/53
"From this mean solar day forward, the millions of our schoolhouse children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every hamlet and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Omnipotent. To anyone who truly loves America, nothing could exist more inspiring than to contemplate this rededication of our youth, on each schoolhouse morning, to our country's truthful pregnant.
Peculiarly is this meaningful as we regard today'south world. Over the globe, mankind has been cruelly torn by violence and brutality and, by the millions, deadened in mind and soul past a materialistic philosophy of life. Man everywhere is appalled past the prospect of atomic war. In this somber setting, this law and its effects today have profound meaning. In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this style we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our land'southward most powerful resource, in peace or in war."
Statement by the President Upon Signing Neb to Include the Words "Under God" in the Pledge to the Flag, half-dozen/xiv/54
"Faith is the mightiest strength that human being has at his command. It impels human beings to greatness in idea and word and deed."
Address at the Second Associates of the World Council of Churches, Evanston, Illinois, 8/19/54 [AUDIO]
"Nosotros are essentially a religious people. We are not only religious, we are inclined, more today than e'er, to run across the value of organized religion as a applied force in our affairs."
Address at the 2d Assembly of the World Quango of Churches, Evanston, Illinois, 8/19/54[Audio]
"Without God, there could exist no American form of Government, nor an American manner of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first -- the nigh bones -- expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God's help, it volition continue to be."
Remarks Recorded for the "Dorsum-to-God" Program of the American Legion, two/20/55
"Since the day of creation, the fondest hopes of men and women have been to pass on to their children something amend than they themselves enjoyed. That promise represents a spark of the Divine which is implanted in every man breast."
Address at the Signing of the Declaration of Principles at the Coming together of the Presidents in Panama City, 7/22/56
"The purpose is Divine; the implementation is man. Our country and its government have fabricated mistakes -- human mistakes. They have been of the head -- not of the heart. And information technology is still true that the great concept of the dignity of all men, alike created in the prototype of the Almighty, has been the compass by which nosotros accept tried and are trying to steer our class."
Annual Bulletin to the Congress on the Country of the Union, 1/10/57
"Basic to our democratic civilization are the principles and convictions that have leap u.s. together every bit a nation. Among these are personal liberty, human rights, and the dignity of man. All these have their roots in a deeply held religious faith -- in a belief in God."
Accost at U.Due south. Naval University Offset, 6/4/58
"The freedom of a denizen 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 Centre, New York City, New York, x/12/58 [Audio]
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"My constant prayer, these days, as 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 24-hour interval Aks and I went up to your ranch for a day's fishing. I cannot call up whatever mean solar day when we have had more fun on a stream. We had along with us three newspaper men and a few secret service people, many of whom had never seen a trout stream, so we did the thing up right past borrowing frying pans, bacon and corn meal from the wife of your rancher -- and nosotros cooked an outdoor repast for the crowd. It was actually quite a day."
Letter, DDE to Bal F. Swan, viii/15/53 [DDE's Papers as President, Name Serial, Box 7, "Denver, 1953"]
"One of the things that I noticed in state of war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at showtime, to realize that in that location are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game game, and and so along."
Remarks at the Briefing of the National Women'southward Informational Committee on Civil Defense, x/26/54 [AUDIO]
"And the other was this: the dr. did want to take off my leg because he idea it was necessary. But you must recollect boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and so they fabricated their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds."
Radio and Television receiver Broadcast: "The Women Enquire the President," 10/24/56
"But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting ii or iii times a yr, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge -- and whenever I felt similar talking or writing, doing information technology with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever -- peradventure such a life wouldn't exist so bad."
Letter of the alphabet, DDE to Alfred M. Gruenther, xi/2/56 [The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Volume XVII - The Presidency: The Centre Manner, Function XI, Chapter 22]
"I have just realized that it is due to you lot, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy State Social club that the putting greenish here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . ."
Letter, DDE to Rear Admiral John S. Phillips, 4/12/57 [DDE's Papers as President, President'southward Personal File, Box 10, 1-A-seven Golf (iv)]
"Non simply 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 join more often and more than intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we volition exercise something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old earth seems nowadays to and so much suffer."
Remarks to Representatives of World Amateur Golf game Team Championship Briefing, 5/2/58[AUDIO]
"Probably no one here knows I coached a football team -- a service team -- playing against Georgetown. I think information technology was in the autumn of 1924 Lou Fiddling was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Fiddling, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend."
Remarks at the Dedication of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, 10/13/58[Audio]
"Well, a funny thing, at that place are three that I like all for the same reason, golf game, fishing, and shooting, and I exercise because first, they have you into the fields. There is mild practise, the kind that an older private probably should have. And on elevation of it, it induces you to accept at whatever once 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 do it whenever I get a chance, every bit you well know."
The President'south Press Conference of 10/15/58[AUDIO]
"Morale -- the will to win, the fighting heart -- are the honored hallmarks of the football game motorcoach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist."
Remarks at the Offset Football Hall of Fame Dinner, New York City, New York, ten/28/58[Sound]
"I call back of going back to the sports field again, and allow's take a baseball game game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your concluding ounce of energy and you just happen to brand first base of operations. But you don't cease there. Get-go base of operations is the offset. Now you lot call on all your alacrity, your skill, your energy -- and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with y'all. And the purpose of that getting on get-go base was to get y'all effectually to count a run."
Remarks at a Republican Men'south Dejeuner in Cleveland, Ohio 11/iv/60 [AUDIO]
"You did not tell me what you are doing athletically just now but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring yous can become information technology in good shape to effort out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't brand it so I advise you take up golf game which subsequently all is the best game of all of them."
Letter, DDE to grandson David Eisenhower, 11/17/65 [DDE's Post Presidential Papers, Secretary'southward Series, Box xiii, Eisenhower]
"But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to accept leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, peradventure more than than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through difficult -- almost slavish -- work, team play, cocky-conviction, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication."
At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, page 16
State of war/Defense force
"I have been called a Fascist and almost a Hitlerite - actually, I have one hostage conviction in this war. Information technology is that no other war in history has and so definitely lined up the forces of arbitrary oppression and dictatorship against those of human rights and individual freedom."
Letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to John S.D. Eisenhower, April 8, 1943 [Eisenhower's Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 173, Eisenhower John S.D. 1943-1946 (2)]
"Humility must always exist the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends."
Guildhall Accost, London, 6/12/45 [AUDIO]
"War is a grim, fell business, a business organisation justified only equally 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. Loma, nine/xi/45
"I detest war as only a soldier who has lived information technology tin, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Accost earlier the Canadian Guild, Ottawa, Canada, 1/10/46
"Guns and tanks and planes are aught unless at that place is a solid spirit, a solid center, and great productiveness behind it."
Address to Economic Club of New York, Hotel Astor, 11/twenty/46
"War is flesh'south well-nigh tragic and stupid folly; to seek or propose its deliberate provocation is a black law-breaking confronting all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you practice so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict."
Graduation Exercises at the Usa Military Academy, half-dozen/3/47
"Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot cover the arguments they adduce. Only, in my opinion, at that place is no such thing equally a preventive state of war. Although this proffer is repeatedly fabricated, none has yet explained how war prevents state of war. Worse than this, no i has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war."
Remarks at Carnegie Found, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/l [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Primary File, Box 196, Carnegie Institute]
"Because, therefore, nosotros are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that manner of life as nosotros go on to the solution of our trouble. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and nosotros must not destroy from inside what we are trying to defend from without."
Speech before NATO Council, 11/26/51 [DDE's Pre-Pres. Papers, Box 197]
"Americans, indeed, all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is non then heavy a burden every bit a prisoner'southward chains."
Countdown Address, one/20/53[AUDIO]
"Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his appurtenances are in peace'."
Statement on the Fourth Ceremony of the Signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, 4/4/53
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending coin alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one mod heavy bomber is this: a modernistic brick school in more than 30 cities. It is ii electric ability plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. Information technology is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. Information technology is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half meg bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more eight,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening state of war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
Address "The Chance for Peace" Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/53 [Audio]
"We practice not go along security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. Nosotros keep the security forces to defend a way of life."
Remarks to the Committee for Economic Development, 5/xx/54 [Sound]
"A preventive war, to my listen, is an impossibility today. How could y'all have ane if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be expressionless and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive state of war; that is state of war."
The President's News Briefing of 8/eleven/54 [Audio]
"And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way information technology is carried out."
The President's News Conference of iii/23/55
"I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the grapheme of armed forces armaments necessary to win a state of war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war tin can be won."
Letter, DDE to Richard Fifty. Simon, Simon and Schuster, Inc., four/4/56 [DDE'due south Papers equally President, DDE Diaries Series, Box 14, April 1956 Miscellaneous (5)]
"When we get to the point, equally we one twenty-four hours will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will take sense enough to come across at the conference table with the agreement that the era of armaments has concluded and the man race must conform its actions to this truth or die."
Letter, DDE to Richard 50. Simon, Simon and Schuster, Inc., 4/4/56 [DDE's Papers as President, DDE Diaries Series, Box 14, April 1956 Miscellaneous (5)]
"Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense -- to protect from violent assault what we already accept. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human being progress."
Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Statler Hotel, Washington, DC, four/21/56[AUDIO]
"We know something of the price of that state of war. Nosotros were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, nosotros have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs only every bit the war did."
The President's News Conference of 6/vi/56
"The only fashion to win the next earth war is to prevent information technology."
Address at a Rally in the Borough Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, 10/17/56
"We must be strong at home if we are going to be strong abroad. We understand that. And so we want to be strong at habitation in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be stiff intellectually, in our education, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily."
Radio and Boob tube Broadcast: "The Women Enquire the President," 10/24/56
"The promise of the world is that wisdom tin abort conflict betwixt brothers. I believe that state of war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I find grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a cyclone to those who detest knowledge and ignore their God."
Accost at the Centennial Celebration Banquet of the National Educational activity Clan, four/4/57[AUDIO]
"Showtime, split ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If e'er again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single full-bodied attempt."
Special Message to the Congress on Reorganization of the Defense Institution, 4/three/58
"Now this brings me to my primary topic -- our war machine strength -- more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security."
Address to the American Gild of Newspaper Editors and the International Printing Institute, iv/17/58
"First, separate ground, ocean and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War 2. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well."
Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the International Press Institute, four/17/58
"At present all of usa deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the confront of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the toll, America will go on itself secure. But in the procedure we must not, past our own hand, destroy or distort the American arrangement. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one certain mode to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts."
Address to the American Society of Paper Editors and the International Printing Establish, 4/17/58
"I know something virtually that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my swain Americans, information technology certainly tin exist repeated if the peace-loving autonomous nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed strength to conquer the pocket-size and weak."
Radio and Television receiver Report to the American People Regarding the Situation in the Formosa Straits, 9/xi/58
"Whatever survey of the gratis earth'southward defense structure cannot neglect to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must exist devoted to armaments."
Almanac Message to the Congress on the Land of the Union, 1/9/59
"But all history has taught u.s.a. 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 World, 3/sixteen/59
"In this hope, among the things nosotros teach to the young are such truths as 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, 3/27/60
"In the councils of government, we must guard confronting 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."
Bye Radio and Tv Address to the American People, 1/17/61
"Morale is the greatest single factor in successful war."
Crusade in Europe, folio 210
"Nix is easy in state of war. Mistakes are ever paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense whatever blunder made by their commanders."
Crusade in Europe, page 450
"We need an adequate defense, simply every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security."
Waging Peace, page 622
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