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Quotes
Agriculture
"The proper role of government, nonetheless, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his chief. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that subcontract living may exist a profitable and satisfying experience."
Special Message to the Congress on Agriculture, i/9/56
"You know, farming looks mighty piece of cake when your plough is a pencil, and you lot're a thousand miles from the corn field."
Address at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, 9/25/56
Anecdotes
"I come from the very center of America."
Guildhall Spoken communication, London, 6/12/45 
"The proudest matter I can claim is that I am from Abilene."
Homecoming Spoken communication, Abilene, Kansas, vi/22/45
"Don't defend yourself. Don't explain. Don't worry."
Letter, DDE to Omar Bradley, ten/26/1949 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 13]
"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come up to pass in the middle of America."
Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, 1/20/53
"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 above its principles soon loses both."
Countdown Address, Washington, DC, ane/20/53
"There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an exclamation of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
Land of the Wedlock Accost, 2/2/53
"Give thanks goodness, many years agone, I had a preceptor, for whom my adoration has never died, and he had a favorite saying, 1 that I trust I attempt to live by. It was: always have your job seriously, never yourself."
Accost at the New England "Forwards to '54" Dinner, Boston, Massachusetts, 9/21/53
"I was raised in a lilliputian town of which about of you accept never heard. But in the West information technology is a famous identify. Information technology is called Abilene, Kansas. We had as our align for a long time a man named Wild Bill Hickok. If you don't know anything about him, read your Westerns more. Now that boondocks had a code, and I was raised equally a boy to prize that code. It was: meet anyone face to face with whom you disagree. You could not sneak upward on him from backside, or exercise any harm to him, without suffering the penalty of an outraged citizenry. If you met him confront to confront and took the same risks he did, y'all could become away with almost anything, as long every bit the bullet was in the front."
Remarks Upon Receiving America'due south Democratic Legacy Award at a B'nai B'rith Dinner in Honor of the 40th Anniversary of the Anti-Defamation League, 11/23/53
"There 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 great idea of setting upward an organism is so as to defeat the domino effect. When, each standing alone, one falls, information technology has the upshot on the next, and finally the whole row is down. Y'all are trying, through a unifying influence, to build that row of dominoes so they can stand up the fall of one, if necessary."
The President's News Conference of v/12/54
"When I was a boy, I was 1 of half-dozen in my family. Nosotros had a quarrel daily as to who could get up and do the chore of bringing the groceries down home. They had a practice then, in grocery stores, that I understand growing efficiency has eliminated -- always hoping that the grocer would say you can take one of the stale prunes out of the butt over there. Only amend than that was the dill pickle jar that you could dive into, sometimes arm deep almost, and effort to get one. I understand that they are not that accommodating anymore; we have got too efficient. When yous go around picking things off the shelf, yous pay for them. These, you sympathise, were complimentary. That meant a lot to young boys to whom a nickel looked about as big as a bike on a farm wagon."
Remarks at the Convention of the National Clan of Retail Grocers, 6/xvi/54
"Now I realize that on any particular decision a very great amount of estrus tin can be generated. But I do say this: life is not made up of only 1 decision here, or another one at that place. It is the full of the decisions that you make in your daily lives with respect to politics, to your family, to your environment, to the people near you. Government has to do that same thing. Information technology is only in the mass that finally philosophy really emerges."
Remarks at Luncheon Coming together of the Republican National Commission and the Republican National Finance Committee, two/17/55
"Today at that place is a great ideological struggle going on in the world. I side upholds what it calls the materialistic dialectic. Denying the existence of spiritual values, it maintains that man responds only to materialistic influences and consequently he is nothing. He is an educated animal and is useful only every bit he serves the ambitions -- desires -- of a ruling clique; though they try to make this finer-sounding than that, considering they say their dictatorship is that of the proletariat, meaning that they rule in the people's name -- for the people. Now, on our side, we recognize right away that human 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 politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote."
Remarks at the Breakfast Meeting of Republican State Chairmen, Denver, Colorado, 9/10/55
"Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos."
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, 8/23/56
"One American put it this mode: 'Every tomorrow has 2 handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith'."
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, 8/23/56
"The earth moves, and ideas that were practiced in one case are not always skilful."
The President'south News Conference of viii/31/56
"I believe when you lot are in whatsoever contest y'all should work similar there is always to the very last infinitesimal a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. So I just run into no excuse if y'all believe anything enough for not putting your whole middle into it. Information technology is what I do."
The President'south News Conference of nine/27/56
"I belong to a family of boys who were raised in meager circumstances in central Kansas, and every one of us earned our way every bit we went forth, and it never occurred to us that we were poor, but nosotros were."
Television Broadcast: "The People Enquire the President," 10/12/56
"The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of big-headed and unreasoning minds."
Address, National Education Association, Washington, DC, iv/4/57
"I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long agone in the Regular army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."
Remarks at the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference, 11/fourteen/57
"Merely these calculations overlook the decisive element: what counts is not necessarily the size of the canis familiaris in the fight -- it'southward the size of the fight in the domestic dog."
Excerpts From Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast, 1/31/58
"Only finally, there is one other quality I would mention among these that I believe volition fit yous for difficult and important posts. This is a salubrious and lively sense of humor."
Address at U. S. Naval Academy Beginning, 6/4/58
"A famous Frenchman once said, 'State of war has become far besides important to entrust to the generals.' Today, business, I think, should be saying: 'Politics accept become far as well important to entrust to the politicians'."
Remarks, Business organisation 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 problem. Though sometimes necessary, every bit witness a professional and technical surreptitious that may accept a bearing upon the welfare and very rubber of this state, we should be very careful in the fashion we apply information technology, because in censorship e'er lurks the very swell danger of working to the disadvantage of the American nation."
Associated Press tiffin, New York, New York, 4/24/50
"Don't join the volume burners. Don't remember you are going to muffle faults past concealing show that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, every bit long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should exist 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 beingness seriously neglected in a vital respect. The nation equally a whole is non preparing teachers or building schools fast enough to keep up with the increase in our population."
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Wedlock, 1/7/54[Audio]
"I say with all the earnestness that I can command, that if American mothers volition teach our children that there is no end to the fight for better relationships amidst the people of the earth, we shall have peace."
Accost to the National Quango of Catholic Women, Boston, Massachusetts, 11/viii/54
"In this connexion, 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 impossible burden of debt."
Remarks on the State of the Wedlock Message, Central Westward, Florida, one/5/56[Audio]
"Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the state. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens."
Address at the Centennial Commemoration Banquet of the National Instruction Association, iv/four/57 [AUDIO]
"Now, the education 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 vii/31/57 [AUDIO]
"I am not here, of course, as one 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 House Conference on Children and Youth, College Park, Maryland, 3/27/60 [AUDIO]
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Citizenship
"Commonwealth is essentially a political arrangement that recognizes the equality of humans before the law." -Address to Constituent Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 8, 1946
"The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow existent leadership are at the core of America'due south strength." - Address at Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont, June 9, 1946
"The proudest human that walks the earth is a costless American citizen." -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 twenty, 1953
"I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others." -Remarks at the United Negro College Fund luncheon, May nineteen, 1953
"I believe every bit long as we let conditions to be that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-course citizens." -Remarks at the United Negro College Fund dejeuner, May 19, 1953
"The full general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you lot practice non trespass upon the equal rights of others." -Remarks to the National Lodge of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Apr 22, 1954
"The history of gratis men is never really written by hazard--but by pick--their pick." -Accost in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1956
"A foundation of our American fashion of life is our national respect for law." - Address to the American People on the situation in Little Stone, Arkansas, September 24, 1957
"Freedom under police is like the air we breathe." -Remarks on the Observance of Law Day, April thirty, 1958
"Information technology is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed." -Remarks on the Observance of Law Day, April 30, 1958
Ceremonious Rights
"I propose to apply whatever say-so exists in the role of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed services."
Annual Bulletin to the Congress on the State of the Marriage, two/2/53 [Audio]
"Nosotros have erased segregation in those areas of national life to which Federal authority clearly extends. So doing in this, my friends, we accept neither sought nor claimed partisan credit, and all such deportment are null more -- null less than the rendering of justice. And we have e'er been aware of this great truth: the terminal battle confronting intolerance is to be fought -- non in the chambers of any legislature -- merely in the hearts of men."
Address at the Hollywood Bowl, Beverly Hills, California, 10/19/56[AUDIO]
"It was my hope that this localized situation would be brought under control by city and Land authorities. If the use of local law powers had been sufficient, our traditional method of leaving the problems in those hands would have been pursued. Just when large gatherings of obstructionists made it incommunicable for the decrees of the Court to be carried out, both the law and the national interest demanded that the President take activeness."
Radio and Television Address to the American People on the State of affairs in Little Rock nine/24/57[Audio]
"I do non believe that all of these problems can be solved only by a new police force, or something that someone says, with teeth in it. For example, when nosotros got into the Piffling Rock thing, information technology was not my province to talk about segregation or desegregation. I had the job of supporting a federal court that had issued a proper club under the Constitution, and where compliance was prevented by action that was unlawful."
The President's News Briefing of three/26/58
"I believe that the U.s.a. every bit a government, if it is going to be truthful to its own founding documents, does take the chore of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason equally race, color, or religion."
The President's News Briefing of 5/xiii/59
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Education
"The true purpose of education is to ready young men and women for constructive citizenship in a gratuitous course of authorities."
Spoken language at William and Mary Higher, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 15, 1953 [AUDIO]
"Information technology is unwise to make education likewise cheap. If everything is provided freely, in that location is a trend to put no value on anything. Teaching must ever take a sure price on it; even every bit the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative."
Address, Centennial Celebration Feast of the National Education Clan, Washington, DC, 4/4/57[Sound]
Government
"1 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 phone call the side by side play until he saw how the last play turned out. Well, that may be a good style to run a football squad, but in these days it is no way to run a authorities."
Accost at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, viii/23/56 [Audio]
"A sound nation is built of individuals sound in body and mind and spirit. Government dares not ignore the individual denizen."
Address at a Rally in the Public Foursquare, Cleveland, Ohio, x/one/56[AUDIO]
"We cannot safely confine government programs to our own domestic progress and our own military machine ability. We could exist the wealthiest and the virtually mighty nation and however lose the battle of the earth if we do non help our world neighbors protect their liberty and advance 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
"But the most interesting -- although horrible -- sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a High german internment army camp near Gotha. The things I saw beggar clarification. While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had fabricated their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual bear witness and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and animality were then overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In 1 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 get ill if he did so. I fabricated the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to requite start-hand evidence of these things if e'er, in the time to come, at that place develops a tendency to charge these allegations only to 'propaganda'."
Letter, DDE to George C. Marshall, 4/15/45 [The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The State of war Years Four, medico #2418]
"We go on to uncover High german concentration camps for political prisoners in which conditions of indescribable horror prevail. I have visited one of these myself and I clinch yous that whatever has been printed on them to date has been understatement. If you lot would see whatsoever 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 will arrange to have them conducted to one of these places where the evidence of animality and cruelty is and so overpowering as to leave no incertitude in their minds about the normal practices of the Germans in these camps."
Cable, DDE to George C. Marshall, 4/xix/45 [The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The War Years IV, md #2424]
"When I constitute the first campsite like that I think I never was so angry in my life. The bestiality displayed in that location was not merely piled up bodies of people that had starved to death, but to follow out the road and see where they tried to evacuate them then they could still work, you lot could see where they sprawled on the road. You could go to their burying pits and come across horrors that really I wouldn't even want to begin to describe. I think people ought to know about such things. It explains something of my attitude toward the German war criminal. I believe he must be punished, and I will concur out for that forever."
Press briefing, 6/18/45 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Chief File, Box 156, Press Statements and Releases, 1944-46 (1)]
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Korean War
"Nosotros accept at present gained a truce in Korea. We exercise non greet it with wild rejoicing. Nosotros know how dear its toll has been in life and treasure."
Radio Report to the American People on the Achievements of the Assistants and the 83d Congress, viii/6/53[Audio]
"Obviously all of usa know that the composition that was reached in Korea is non satisfactory to America, but it is far better than to continue the encarmine, dreary, sacrifice of lives with no possible strictly military victory in sight."
Address at the Illinois State Fair at Springfield, 8/19/54[Sound]
"And of course, there was the war in Korea, a war around which there had grown up such a political situation that armed forces 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, 8/23/54 [AUDIO]
"In June of terminal twelvemonth nosotros negotiated a truce which concluded the Korean War, preserved the Republic of Korea'south freedom, and frustrated the Communist blueprint for conquest."
Address at the American Legion Convention, 8/30/54 [AUDIO]
Labor
I have no employ for those — regardless of their political party — who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock dorsum to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.
Speech communication to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, 9/17/52
Today in America unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Just a handful of unreconstructed reactionaries harbor the ugly idea of breaking unions. Only a fool would endeavour 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 groovy bargain to help the settlement of labor disputes without assuasive itself to be employed as an marry of either side. Its proper role in industrial strife is to encourage the process of mediation and conciliation.
State of the Union Message, Washington, DC, two/two/53[AUDIO]
Leadership/Organization
"What is Leadership?" by Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Y'all take got to accept something in which to believe. Yous take got to have leaders, organization, friendships, and contacts that help you to believe that, and help you to put out your best."
Remarks to the Leaders of the United Defense Fund, iv/29/54 [Audio]
"At present I retrieve, speaking roughly, by leadership we hateful the art of getting someone else to do something that you desire washed because he wants to do it, non because your position of power can compel him to do it, or your position of authority. A commander of a regiment is non necessarily a leader. He has all of the appurtenances of ability given by a gear up of Army regulations by which he can compel unified activeness. He can say to a trunk such equally this, "Rise," and "Sit down." Yous practise it exactly. Merely that is not leadership."
Remarks at the Almanac Briefing of the Society for Personnel Assistants, 5/12/54[AUDIO]
"The job of getting people really wanting to do something is the essence of leadership. And one of the things a leader needs occasionally is the inspiration he gets from the people he leads. The old tactical textbooks say that the commander always visits his troops to inspire them to fight. I for one shortly discovered that one of the reasons for my visiting the forepart lines was to become 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 hope I curtained them."
Remarks at the Breakfast Meeting of Republican State Chairmen, Denver, Colorado, 9/ten/55
"As long as I am dorsum in my military life for a 2d, I should like to observe i thing almost leadership that one of the great has said -- Napoleon. He said, the peachy leader, the genius in leadership, is the human who tin can do the boilerplate thing 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 get others to do something because they think you lot want information technology washed and considering they know it is worth while doing -- that is what we are talking about."
Remarks at the Republican Campaign Picnic at the President'due south Gettysburg Farm, 9/12/56
"Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than near any other I know."
The President'due south News Conference of 11/14/56
"My life has been largely spent in affairs that required organization. Just organization itself, necessary as it is, is never sufficient to win a battle."
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 articulate that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if at that place is to be a happy and well world."
Remarks at the Department of Land 1954 Honor Awards Ceremony, ten/19/54[Sound]
"In that location tin be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very fabric disarmament."
Remarks at the Republican Women's National Conference, 5/x/55[Sound]
"The peace nosotros seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It ways the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world."
Radio and Television set Written report to the American People on the Developments in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, ten/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 dominicus goes downwards they volition however know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them confronting disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever costless men lose hope of progress, freedom will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will exist sown."
Remarks of Welcome to the Delegates to the Tenth Colombo Program Coming together, Seattle, Washington, eleven/x/58[Audio]
"I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more than to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people desire peace so much that one of these days governments had better leave of the way and allow them take it."
Radio and Tv Circulate With Prime number Government minister Macmillan in London, 8/31/59
"So -- our readiness to come across and defeat this kind of possible assault is forced upon united states, both as a strong preventive of actual war and to insure survival in effect of set on. This alertness to danger has to exist translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the globe where our rights -- our way of life -- can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights."
Letter from DDE to Hallock Brown Hoffman, February 7, 1955
"I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would non travel, in that location is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by and then doing, I would promote the general cause of globe peace."
The President's News Conference, March 23, 1955 [Sound]
"Equally for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to practice anything, to run into with anyone, anywhere, equally long every bit nosotros may do so in cocky-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great crusade of peace."
Remarks at the Republican Women's National Conference, May 10, 1955[AUDIO]
"For a simply and lasting peace, hither is my solemn pledge to you: past dedication and patience we will continue, every bit long equally I remain your President, to work for this simple -- this single -- this sectional goal."
Address 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 exist aware of its full pregnant -- and set up to pay its full price."
2d Inaugural Accost, January 21, 1957[AUDIO]
"For all that we cherish and justly want -- for ourselves or for our children -- the securing of peace is the beginning requisite."
Radio and Television 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 globe peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, nosotros must exist prepared to brand whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its cease."
Remarks at the Fort Pitt Affiliate, Association of the Us Army May 31, 1961
The Presidency
"My showtime solar day at the President's Desk. Plenty of worries and difficult bug. Simply 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, one/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 almost taxing job, as far equally 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 aught could be quite as wearing and tearing as that with lives directly involved. Merely I would say, on the whole, this is the most wearing, although not necessarily, equally I say, the most tiring."
The President's News Conference at Key Westward, Florida, 1/8/56
"Many people are ever proverb the Presidency is too big a job for any one human being. When I hear this assertion, I always try to point out that a single homo must make the final decisions that impact the whole, but that proper organization brings to him only the questions and issues on which his decisions are needed. His ain chore is to be mentally prepared to make those decisions and and so to be supported by an arrangement that will make certain they are carried out."
Letter, DDE to Dillon Anderson, 1/22/68 [DDE's Postal service-Presidential Papers, 1968 Principal File, Box 36, "An"]
"On the other paw, I found that getting things done sometimes required other weapons from the Presidential arsenal -- persuasion, cajolery, even a little head-thumping here and there -- to say nada of a personal streak of obstinacy which on occasion fires my boilers."
Some Thoughts on the Presidency, Reader'due south Assimilate, November 1968
Religion
"In other words, our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't intendance what it is."
Address at the Freedoms Foundation, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, New York, 12/22/52
"Today I think that prayer is just just a necessity, considering by prayer I believe we mean an effort to get in touch with the Space. We know that fifty-fifty our prayers are imperfect. Even our supplications are imperfect. Of course they are. We are imperfect human being beings. Simply if we tin back off from those problems and make the endeavour, then there is something that ties u.s.a. all together. We have begun in our grasp of that basis of agreement, which is that all complimentary government is firmly founded in a deeply-felt religious faith."
Remarks at the Dedicatory Prayer Breakfast of the International Christian Leadership, ii/five/53
"The churches of America are citadels of our faith in individual liberty and homo nobility. This faith is the living source of all our spiritual strength. And this force is our matchless armor in our world-wide struggle confronting the forces of godless tyranny and oppression."
Bulletin to the National Co-Chairmen, Commission of Religious Organizations, National Conference on Christians and Jews, vii/9/53
"From this day forward, the millions of our schoolhouse children volition daily proclaim in every urban center and town, every hamlet and rural school 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 schoolhouse morning, to our country's true meaning.
Especially is this meaningful as we regard today'due south world. Over the earth, flesh has been cruelly torn by violence and brutality and, by the millions, deadened in mind and soul past a materialistic philosophy of life. Human everywhere is appalled past the prospect of atomic war. In this somber setting, this law and its effects today accept profound pregnant. In this fashion we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious religion in America's heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our land's most powerful resource, in peace or in war."
Statement past the President Upon Signing Bill to Include the Words "Under God" in the Pledge to the Flag, half dozen/14/54
"Faith is the mightiest strength that man has at his command. It impels human beings to greatness in idea and word and human action."
Address at the Second Assembly of the Earth Council of Churches, Evanston, Illinois, eight/19/54 [Sound]
"We are essentially a religious people. We are non simply religious, we are inclined, more than today than ever, to see the value of religion equally a practical force in our affairs."
Address at the Second Assembly of the Earth Council of Churches, Evanston, Illinois, 8/xix/54[Sound]
"Without God, at that place could be no American class of Regime, nor an American style of life. Recognition of the Supreme Beingness is the kickoff -- the most basic -- expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God'southward help, it will continue to be."
Remarks Recorded for the "Dorsum-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."
Address at the Signing of the Declaration of Principles at the Meeting of the Presidents in Panama Urban center, vii/22/56
"The purpose is Divine; the implementation is human. Our country and its regime accept made mistakes -- human mistakes. They have been of the head -- not of the centre. And it is still true that the neat concept of the dignity of all men, alike created in the image of the Omnipotent, has been the compass by which we have tried and are trying to steer our class."
Annual Bulletin to the Congress on the State of the Union, i/x/57
"Basic to our democratic civilisation are the principles and convictions that have bound us 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 religion -- in a conventionalities in God."
Accost at U.S. Naval Academy Commencement, six/4/58
"The freedom of a denizen and the freedom of a religious believer are more intimately related; they are mutually dependent. These two liberties requite life to the heart of our Nation."
Remarks at the Cornerstone-Laying Anniversary for the Interchurch Center, New York City, New York, 10/12/58 [AUDIO]
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Sports
"My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, delight allow 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 up to your ranch for a twenty-four hour period's fishing. I cannot think whatever twenty-four hours when we have had more than fun on a stream. We had along with us iii newspaper men and a few hole-and-corner service people, many of whom had never seen a trout stream, so we did the affair up right by borrowing frying pans, bacon and corn repast from the wife of your rancher -- and nosotros cooked an outdoor meal for the crowd. It was really quite a day."
Letter, DDE to Bal F. Swan, 8/15/53 [DDE's Papers as President, Proper noun Series, Box 7, "Denver, 1953"]
"One of the things that I noticed in state of war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that at that place are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and then forth."
Remarks at the Briefing of the National Women's Advisory Committee on Civil Defense, 10/26/54 [AUDIO]
"And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg considering he idea it was necessary. Only you lot must call back boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and and so they made their play; and if y'all couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was concluded. That was in our adolescent minds."
Radio and Television Circulate: "The Women Ask the President," 10/24/56
"But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a yr, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge -- and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with carelessness and with no sense of responsibleness whatsoever -- maybe such a life wouldn't be and so bad."
Alphabetic character, DDE to Alfred M. Gruenther, eleven/2/56 [The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Book XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Way, Part Xi, Chapter 22]
"I take just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy State Club that the putting green hither on the White Business firm lawn is already in such excellent condition. I clinch you lot that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the dark-green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . ."
Letter, DDE to Rear Admiral John S. Phillips, 4/12/57 [DDE's Papers as President, President's Personal File, Box ten, 1-A-7 Golf (4)]
"Not only do I have a neat love for the game of golf game -- no matter how desperately I play it -- just I accept also the belief that through every kind of coming together, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, past that measure we will practice something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor former world seems present to so much endure."
Remarks to Representatives of Earth Amateur Golf Team Championship Conference, v/two/58[AUDIO]
"Probably no one here knows I coached a football team -- a service squad -- playing confronting Georgetown. I think it was in the autumn of 1924 Lou Picayune was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of some other homo, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm acquaintance and friend."
Remarks at the Dedication of the Edmund A. Walsh Schoolhouse of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, 10/13/58[AUDIO]
"Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I practice considering start, they have you into the fields. At that place is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on elevation of it, information technology induces you to take at any ane time 2 or iii hours, if you can, where y'all are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind information technology is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a risk, as you lot well know."
The President's Printing Conference of 10/fifteen/58[Audio]
"Morale -- the will to win, the fighting heart -- are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. As well, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated instructor and scientist."
Remarks at the Start 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 take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and y'all put in your last ounce of energy and yous just happen to make first base of operations. Only y'all don't stop there. First base is the showtime. Now you phone call on all your alertness, your skill, your free energy -- and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get yous around to count a run."
Remarks at a Republican Men's Luncheon in Cleveland, Ohio 11/4/threescore [AUDIO]
"Y'all did non tell me what you lot are doing athletically just at present just I exercise hope that if your arm comes forth next leap you can get it in practiced shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. Nonetheless, if you don't brand it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the all-time game of all of them."
Alphabetic character, DDE to grandson David Eisenhower, xi/17/65 [DDE'south Post Presidential Papers, Secretarial assistant'south Series, Box thirteen, Eisenhower]
"Merely I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than whatsoever other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard -- almost slavish -- work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication."
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War/Defence
"I accept been called a Fascist and almost a Hitlerite - really, I have one earnest conviction in this war. Information technology is that no other state of war in history has and so definitely lined up the forces of arbitrary oppression and dictatorship against those of human rights and private liberty."
Alphabetic character 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 (two)]
"Humility must ever exist the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends."
Guildhall Accost, London, half-dozen/12/45 [AUDIO]
"State of war is a grim, fell business organisation, a concern justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of adept against those of evil."
Transcription made for National War Fund at request of Col. Luther 50. Hill, ix/11/45
"I hate state of war every bit only a soldier who has lived information technology can, but as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Accost before the Canadian Guild, Ottawa, Canada, 1/10/46
"Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it."
Accost to Economic Society of New York, Hotel Astor, xi/20/46
"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or propose its deliberate provocation is a blackness crime against all men. Though you follow the trade 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 United States Military Academy, vi/iii/47
"Mayhap my hatred of war blinds me and so that I cannot encompass the arguments they adduce. Only, in my opinion, there is no such matter as a preventive state of war. Although this proffer is repeatedly fabricated, none has yet explained how state of war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that state of war creates the conditions that beget state of war."
Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/nineteen/50 [DDE'south Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box 196, Carnegie Plant]
"Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must non violate its principles and its precepts, and nosotros must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without."
Speech earlier NATO Council, 11/26/51 [DDE'due south Pre-Pres. Papers, Box 197]
"Americans, indeed, all costless men, recall that in the last choice a soldier's pack is not and then heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains."
Inaugural Address, 1/xx/53[Sound]
"Each and all of united states of america must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a stiff man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods 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 non spending money lonely. Information technology is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of ane mod heavy bomber is this: a modernistic brick school in more than thirty cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter airplane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 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 mode of life at all, in any truthful sense. Nether the cloud of threatening state of war, information technology is humanity hanging from a cantankerous of iron."
Address "The Chance for Peace" Delivered Earlier the American Society of Paper Editors, 4/sixteen/53 [AUDIO]
"Nosotros do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life."
Remarks to the Committee for Economic Development, 5/20/54 [AUDIO]
"A preventive war, to my heed, is an impossibility today. How could you have ane if one of its features would exist 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 state of war; that is war."
The President's News Briefing of viii/11/54 [Audio]
"And the adjacent thing is that every state of war is going to amaze y'all in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out."
The President'southward News Conference of iii/23/55
"I accept spent my life in the study of military strength every bit a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The report of the first of these questions is withal assisting, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war tin can be won."
Letter, DDE to Richard L. Simon, Simon and Schuster, Inc., four/4/56 [DDE's Papers as President, DDE Diaries Serial, Box 14, April 1956 Miscellaneous (v)]
"When we get to the point, every bit we one day volition, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction volition exist both reciprocal and complete, possibly we volition take sense plenty to run into at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must adapt its actions to this truth or die."
Letter, DDE to Richard L. Simon, Simon and Schuster, Inc., 4/four/56 [DDE'southward Papers as President, DDE Diaries Serial, Box fourteen, Apr 1956 Miscellaneous (5)]
"Arms alone tin can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense force -- to protect from trigger-happy attack what nosotros already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress."
Address before the American Lodge of Newspaper Editors, Statler Hotel, Washington, DC, 4/21/56[Sound]
"We know something of the toll of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till Baronial of '45. Ever since that time, nosotros have been waging peace. Information technology has had its ups and downs just as the state of war did."
The President's News Briefing of half-dozen/6/56
"The only way to win the next world war is to foreclose information technology."
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 abroad. We sympathize that. So nosotros desire to be potent at habitation in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our pedagogy, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily."
Radio and Television Broadcast: "The Women Ask the President," 10/24/56
"The hope of the world is that wisdom tin can arrest disharmonize betwixt brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I detect grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in consequence this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate noesis and ignore their God."
Address at the Centennial Commemoration Banquet of the National Education Association, 4/4/57[AUDIO]
"First, split up ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If e'er again we should be involved in war, we volition fight it in all elements, with all services, equally 1 single concentrated effort."
Special Bulletin to the Congress on Reorganization of the Defence force Establishment, 4/three/58
"Now this brings me to my master topic -- our military forcefulness -- more than specifically, how to stay potent against threat from outside, without undermining the economic wellness that supports our security."
Address to the American Gild of Paper Editors and the International Printing Found, 4/17/58
"Beginning, carve up footing, 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 Order of Newspaper Editors and the International Press Institute, 4/17/58
"Now all of usa deplore this vast military spending. All the same, in the face of the Soviet mental attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatsoever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the procedure we must not, by our own hand, destroy or misconstrue the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure manner to overspend. That is past overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts."
Accost to the American Lodge of Paper Editors and the International Press Institute, 4/17/58
"I know something about that war, and I never desire to see that history repeated. But, my boyfriend Americans, information technology certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving autonomous nations once more fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while large aggressors apply armed force to conquer the small and weak."
Radio and Television Study to the American People Regarding the Situation in the Formosa Straits, ix/eleven/58
"Any survey of the gratuitous world'due south defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our attempt and resources must be devoted to armaments."
Annual Message to the Congress on the Country of the Wedlock, 1/nine/59
"But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has e'er been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights -- by attempting to placate aggression."
Radio and Tv Report to the American People: Security in the Free World, 3/16/59
"In this hope, among 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 man values."
Address at the Opening Session of the White Business firm Conference on Children and Youth, College Park, Maryland, 3/27/60
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the conquering 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."
Farewell Radio and Idiot box Address to the American People, i/17/61
"Morale is the greatest single factor in successful war."
Crusade in Europe, page 210
"Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense whatever corrigendum made by their commanders."
Crusade in Europe, folio 450
"We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening event upon the nation and its security."
Waging Peace, folio 622
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