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Quotes

Agriculture

"The proper role of government, even so, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his principal. By every possible ways we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agronomics may continue to be a sound, indelible foundation for our economic system and that farm living may exist a profitable and satisfying feel."
Special Message to the Congress on Agriculture, ane/9/56

"You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a m miles from the corn field."
Address at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, ix/25/56

Anecdotes

"I come from the very heart of America."
Guildhall Speech, London, vi/12/45

"The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene."
Homecoming Spoken language, Abilene, Kansas, 6/22/45

"Don't defend yourself. Don't explain. Don't worry."
Letter, DDE to Omar Bradley, ten/26/1949 [DDE'southward Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 13]

"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the earth must get-go come up to laissez passer in the heart of America."
Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, ane/20/53

"For history does non 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 in a higher place its principles soon loses both."
Countdown Address, Washington, DC, 1/20/53

"At that place is -- in earth affairs -- a steady form to be followed betwixt an assertion of forcefulness that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
Land of the Union Address, 2/two/53

"Give thanks goodness, many years ago, I had a preceptor, for whom my adoration has never died, and he had a favorite saying, ane that I trust I try to alive by. It was: always have your job seriously, never yourself."
Address at the New England "Frontward to '54" Dinner, Boston, Massachusetts, 9/21/53

"I was raised in a little town of which most of yous take never heard. Just in the West it is a famous place. It is called Abilene, Kansas. We had every bit our marshal for a long time a man named Wild Bill Hickok. If you don't know anything about him, read your Westerns more. At present that town had a lawmaking, and I was raised every bit a boy to prize that code. It was: come across anyone confront to face with whom you disagree. You could non sneak up on him from behind, or do whatever damage to him, without suffering the penalty of an outraged citizenry. If you met him face up to confront and took the same risks he did, you could become away with well-nigh anything, as long equally the bullet was in the front."
Remarks Upon Receiving America's Democratic Legacy Award at a B'nai B'rith Dinner in Honor 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 not inspected deteriorates."
The President'due south News Conference of 5/12/54

"Well, it is very important, and the bully idea of setting upward an organism is so as to defeat the domino upshot. When, each continuing alone, i falls, it has the effect on the side by side, and finally the whole row is down. You are trying, through a unifying influence, to build that row of dominoes so they can stand the fall of one, if necessary."
The President's News Conference of 5/12/54

"When I was a boy, I was ane of 6 in my family. We had a quarrel daily every bit to who could go up and do the task of bringing the groceries down domicile. They had a practice then, in grocery stores, that I understand growing efficiency has eliminated -- always hoping that the grocer would say y'all can have ane of the dried prunes out of the barrel over there. But better than that was the dill pickle jar that you could swoop into, sometimes arm deep almost, and try to get one. I sympathise that they are not that accommodating anymore; we take got too efficient. When you get around picking things off the shelf, you pay for them. These, you understand, were free. That meant a lot to young boys to whom a nickel looked about every bit large equally a wheel on a farm carriage."
Remarks at the Convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers, 6/16/54

"At present I realize that on any particular decision a very great amount of heat can be generated. But I practice say this: life is non made up of just one determination here, or another one there. Information technology 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 about you. Government has to practice that same thing. It is but in the mass that finally philosophy actually emerges."
Remarks at Luncheon Coming together of the Republican National Commission and the Republican National Finance Committee, two/17/55

"Today there is a dandy ideological struggle going on in the world. 1 side upholds what it calls the materialistic dialectic. Denying the existence of spiritual values, information technology maintains that man responds simply to materialistic influences and consequently he is cypher. He is an educated animal and is useful simply as he serves the ambitions -- desires -- of a ruling clique; though they try to brand this effectively-sounding than that, because they say their dictatorship is that of the proletariat, meaning that they rule in the people'south proper noun -- for the people. Now, on our side, we recognize right away that man is not merely an animal, that his life and his ambitions have at the bottom a foundation of spiritual values."
Remarks at 11th Annual Washington Conference of the Ad Council, iii/22/55

"Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who exercise not vote."
Remarks at the Breakfast Meeting of Republican Land Chairmen, Denver, Colorado, nine/ten/55

"Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes anarchy."
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, 8/23/56

"One American put information technology this mode: 'Every tomorrow has two handles. We can have agree of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of organized religion'."
Address at the Moo-cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, eight/23/56

"The globe moves, and ideas that were good once are not ever good."
The President's News Conference of 8/31/56

"I believe when you are in any contest you lot should work like there is ever to the very last infinitesimal a chance to lose it. This is boxing, this is politics, this is anything. So I just see no excuse if you believe anything enough for not putting your whole heart into it. It is what I do."
The President's News Briefing of 9/27/56

"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 information technology never occurred to us that we were poor, but we were."
Television Broadcast: "The People Inquire the President," 10/12/56

"The hope of the world is that wisdom tin can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of big-headed and unreasoning minds."
Accost, National Education Clan, Washington, DC, four/4/57

"I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."
Remarks at the National Defence Executive Reserve Briefing, xi/14/57

"But these calculations overlook the decisive element: what counts is not necessarily the size of the domestic dog in the fight -- information technology's the size of the fight in the canis familiaris."
Excerpts From Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast, 1/31/58

"But finally, there is i other quality I would mention among these that I believe volition fit you lot for hard and important posts. This is a salubrious and lively humor."
Accost at U. South. Naval Academy Commencement, half-dozen/4/58

"A famous Frenchman once said, 'State of war has become far too important to entrust to the generals.' Today, business concern, I think, should exist saying: 'Politics take become far too important to entrust to the politicians'."
Remarks, Business Council, Hot Springs, Virginia, ten/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, as witness a professional and technical clandestine that may have a bearing upon the welfare and very safety of this country, we should be very careful in the way we apply it, because in censorship e'er lurks the very great danger of working to the disadvantage of the American nation."
Associated Press tiffin, New York, New York, 4/24/50

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults past concealing prove that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to get in your library and read every book, equally long every bit that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the but censorship."
Remarks at the Dartmouth College Showtime Exercises, Hanover, New Hampshire, half-dozen/14/53[AUDIO]

Children/Youth/Families

"Youth -- our greatest resources -- is existence seriously neglected in a vital respect. The nation as a whole is non preparing teachers or building schools fast enough to go along up with the increase in our population."
Annual Message to the Congress on the Land of the Matrimony, one/seven/54[Sound]

"I say with all the earnestness that I can command, that if American mothers will teach our children that there is no stop to the fight for better relationships among the people of the world, we shall have peace."
Address to the National Council of Cosmic Women, Boston, Massachusetts, 11/8/54

"In this connection, I should mention our enormous national debt. We must begin to make some payments on information technology if we are to avoid passing on to our children an impossible burden of debt."
Remarks on the State of the Matrimony Message, Key Due west, Florida, i/5/56[AUDIO]

"Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the country. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens."
Address at the Centennial Celebration Feast of the National Education Association, iv/4/57 [AUDIO]

"At present, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity."
The President'southward News Conference of vii/31/57 [AUDIO]

"I am not here, of course, as 1 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 Conference on Children and Youth, College Park, Maryland, 3/27/sixty [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 liberty of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the cadre of America'due south strength." - Address at Norwich Academy, Northfield, Vermont, June 9, 1946

"The proudest human that walks the globe is a gratis American citizen." -Talk at the Commercial Order of Chicago, May 21, 1948

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -Countdown Address, January 20, 1953

"I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others." -Remarks at the United Negro Higher Fund luncheon, May xix, 1953

"I believe equally long every bit we allow conditions to exist that make for second-grade citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-form citizens." -Remarks at the United Negro College Fund luncheon, May 19, 1953

"The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you practice not trespass upon the equal rights of others." -Remarks to the National Club of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Apr 22, 1954

"The history of gratuitous men is never really written by gamble--but by choice--their choice." -Accost in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1956

"A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law." - Address to the American People on the state of affairs in Little Stone, Arkansas, September 24, 1957

"Freedom under law is like the air we exhale." -Remarks on the Observance of Law Twenty-four hour period, Apr 30, 1958

"Information technology is only every bit we govern ourselves that we are well-governed." -Remarks on the Observance of Police Day, April 30, 1958

Civil Rights

"I propose to use whatever authorization exists in the office of the President to stop segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and whatsoever segregation in the Military."
Almanac Bulletin to the Congress on the State of the Marriage, 2/ii/53 [AUDIO]

"We 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 actions are zero more -- cypher less than the rendering of justice. And we have e'er been enlightened of this keen truth: the final battle against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of whatever legislature -- but in the hearts of men."
Accost at the Hollywood Basin, Beverly Hills, California, x/xix/56[AUDIO]

"It was my hope that this localized state of affairs would exist brought under control past city and State authorities. If the use of local police powers had been sufficient, our traditional method of leaving the problems in those hands would have been pursued. But when big gatherings of obstructionists fabricated it impossible for the decrees of the Courtroom to be carried out, both the police and the national interest demanded that the President take activeness."
Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Situation in Fiddling Stone ix/24/57[AUDIO]

"I do not believe that all of these problems can be solved just by a new law, or something that someone says, with teeth in it. For case, when nosotros got into the Fiddling Rock affair, it was not my province to talk nearly segregation or desegregation. I had the job of supporting a federal court that had issued a proper gild nether the Constitution, and where compliance was prevented by action that was unlawful."
The President's News Conference of 3/26/58

"I believe that the Usa as a regime, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does take the job of working toward that fourth dimension when at that place is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion."
The President'southward News Briefing of five/13/59

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Education

"The truthful purpose of instruction is to fix young men and women for effective citizenship in a free course of government."
Spoken language at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, May xv, 1953 [Sound]

"It is unwise to make didactics also inexpensive. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must e'er take a certain price on it; fifty-fifty every bit the very process of learning itself must always crave individual effort and initiative."
Address, Centennial Celebration Banquet of the National Educational activity Clan, Washington, DC, 4/4/57[Sound]

Regime

"One of my predecessors is said to have observed that in making his decisions he had to operate like a football quarterback -- he could non very well telephone call the side by side play until he saw how the final play turned out. Well, that may be a skillful manner to run a football team, but in these days it is no mode to run a regime."
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention, 8/23/56 [AUDIO]

"A sound nation is congenital of individuals audio in body and mind and spirit. Government dares not ignore the private citizen."
Accost at a Rally in the Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, 10/one/56[Audio]

"We cannot safely confine regime programs to our ain domestic progress and our own military ability. Nosotros could be the wealthiest and the virtually mighty nation and still lose the battle of the world if we practice not help our world neighbors protect their freedom and advance their social and economic progress. It is non the goal of the American people that the Us should exist the richest nation in the graveyard of history."
Special Message to the Congress on the Mutual Security Program, 3/thirteen/59

Holocaust

"Simply the most interesting -- although horrible -- sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment army camp near Gotha. The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the army camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering equally to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they [there] were piled up twenty or 30 naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would non even enter. He said he would become sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if e'er, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda'."
Letter of the alphabet, DDE to George C. Marshall, 4/15/45 [The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The War Years IV, doc #2418]

"Nosotros continue to uncover German concentration camps for political prisoners in which conditions of indescribable horror prevail. I have visited one of these myself and I assure you that whatever has been printed on them to date has been understatement. If you would see any advantage in asking almost a dozen leaders of Congress and a dozen prominent editors to brand a brusk visit to this theater in a couple of C-54'southward, I will arrange to have them conducted to one of these places where the testify of bestiality and cruelty is so overpowering as to exit no dubiousness in their minds about the normal practices of the Germans in these camps."
Cable, DDE to George C. Marshall, four/19/45 [The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The War Years Four, physician #2424]

"When I found the start camp like that I call up I never was and so angry in my life. The bestiality displayed in that location was not simply piled upwards bodies of people that had starved to death, only to follow out the road and run into where they tried to evacuate them so they could all the same work, you lot could see where they sprawled on the road. You could get to their burial pits and meet horrors that really I wouldn't even want to begin to describe. I think people ought to know about such things. Information technology explains something of my mental attitude toward the High german war criminal. I believe he must be punished, and I will hold out for that forever."
Press conference, 6/eighteen/45 [DDE'due south Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box 156, Press Statements and Releases, 1944-46 (1)]

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Korean War

"We have now gained a truce in Korea. We exercise non greet information technology with wild rejoicing. Nosotros know how dearest its toll has been in life and treasure."
Radio Report to the American People on the Achievements of the Administration and the 83d Congress, viii/half dozen/53[Audio]

"Obviously all of united states know that the composition that was reached in Korea is not satisfactory to America, but it is far better than to go on the encarmine, dreary, sacrifice of lives with no possible strictly military victory in sight."
Address at the Illinois State Fair at Springfield, viii/nineteen/54[Sound]

"And of course, there was the war in Korea, a war effectually which at that place had grown upwardly such a political state of affairs that armed forces victory, at least a decisive armed services victory, was no longer in the cards."
Radio and Goggle box Address to the American People on the Achievements of the 83rd Congress, viii/23/54 [Audio]

"In June of terminal twelvemonth nosotros negotiated a truce which ended the Korean State of war, preserved the Republic of korea'southward freedom, and frustrated the Communist design for conquest."
Address at the American Legion Convention, 8/30/54 [Sound]

Labor

I have no use for those — regardless of their party — who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, near helpless mass.
Voice communication to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, 9/17/52

Today in America unions take a secure identify in our industrial life. Merely a handful of unreconstructed reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions. But a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the spousal relationship of their choice.
Speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, 9/17/52

Authorities can do a neat bargain to aid the settlement of labor disputes without allowing itself to be employed as an ally of either side. Its proper function in industrial strife is to encourage the process of arbitration and conciliation.
State of the Union Message, Washington, DC, 2/2/53[Audio]

Leadership/Organization

"What is Leadership?" past Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You have got to accept something in which to believe. You take got to have leaders, organization, friendships, and contacts that assist yous to believe that, and aid yous to put out your all-time."
Remarks to the Leaders of the United Defence force Fund, four/29/54 [AUDIO]

"Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we hateful the art of getting someone else to practise something that yous want done because he wants to do it, non because your position of power tin compel him to do it, or your position of authority. A commander of a regiment is not necessarily a leader. He has all of the appurtenances of power given past a gear up of Army regulations by which he can compel unified action. He can say to a body such as this, "Rise," and "Sit down downward." Y'all practise it exactly. Merely that is non leadership."
Remarks at the Almanac Conference of the Society for Personnel Administration, 5/12/54[Audio]

"The chore of getting people really 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 1 soon discovered that one of the reasons for my visiting the forepart lines was to get inspiration from the young American soldier. I went dorsum to my chore ashamed of my own occasional resentments or discouragements, which I probably -- at least I promise I curtained them."
Remarks at the Breakfast Coming together of Republican State Chairmen, Denver, Colorado, 9/10/55

"As long every bit I am back in my military life for a second, I should like to notice one thing almost leadership that one of the corking has said -- Napoleon. He said, the keen leader, the genius in leadership, is the man who can practise the average thing when everybody else is going crazy."
Address at Meeting Sponsored by the Republican National Committee, 4/17/56

"The essence of leadership is to get others to do something considering they remember you want it done and because they know it is worth while doing -- that is what we are talking most."
Remarks at the Republican Campaign Picnic at the President'due south Gettysburg Farm, ix/12/56

"Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than virtually any other I know."
The President's News Conference of 11/14/56

"My life has been largely spent in affairs that required organisation. Simply arrangement itself, necessary as it is, is never sufficient to win a boxing."
Remarks to Participants in the Immature Republican National Leadership Training School, 1/twenty/60[Audio]

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Peace

"Since the appearance of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that in that location is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to exist a happy and well globe."
Remarks at the Section of Land 1954 Honor Awards Ceremony, 10/19/54[AUDIO]

"In that location tin be no truthful disarmament without peace, and in that location can be no real peace without very material disarmament."
Remarks at the Republican Women's National Conference, 5/10/55[Audio]

"The peace we seek and need means much more mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world."
Radio and Television set Report to the American People on the Developments in Eastern Europe and the Middle Due east, ten/31/56[Sound]

"In vast stretches of the globe, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And every bit the sun goes down they will withal know hunger. They volition see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will e'er decently shelter their families or protect them confronting affliction. And so long as this is then, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our globe. For wherever free men lose promise of progress, liberty will exist weakened and the seeds of conflict volition be sown."
Remarks of Welcome to the Delegates to the Tenth Colombo Plan Meeting, Seattle, Washington, eleven/ten/58[AUDIO]

"I similar to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I call back that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had amend go out of the fashion and permit them take information technology."
Radio and Boob tube Broadcast With Prime Government minister Macmillan in London, 8/31/59

"Then -- our readiness to see and defeat this kind of possible set on is forced upon the states, both as a strong preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights -- our style of life -- tin can exist seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights."
Alphabetic character from DDE to Hallock Brown Hoffman, February 7, 1955

"I accept said time and again in that location is no identify on this earth to which I would non travel, there is no task I would not undertake if I had whatever faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace."
The President'due south News Briefing, March 23, 1955 [AUDIO]

"As for myself and for the Secretarial assistant of Country and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand up ready to exercise anything, to encounter with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may practice and so in cocky-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and in that location is whatever slightest thought or chance of furthering this bang-up crusade of peace."
Remarks at the Republican Women's National Conference, May 10, 1955[Audio]

"For a just and lasting peace, hither is my solemn pledge to y'all: past dedication and patience we will keep, as long as I remain your President, to piece of work for this elementary -- this single -- this exclusive goal."
Address at Byrd Field, Richmond, Virginia, Oct 29, 1956[Audio]

"The edifice of such a peace is a assuming and solemn purpose. To proclaim information technology is easy. To serve it volition be hard. And to attain it, nosotros must be enlightened of its total meaning -- and gear up to pay its total price."
Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1957[AUDIO]

"For all that we cherish and justly desire -- for ourselves or for our children -- the securing of peace is the start requisite."
Radio and Television set Address to the American People on the Demand for Mutual Security in Waging the Peace, May 21, 1957

"Having established every bit our goals a lasting globe peace with justice and the security of liberty on this globe, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded every bit we pursue this path to its cease."
Remarks at the Fort Pitt Chapter, Association of the United States Army May 31, 1961

The Presidency

"My start day at the President's Desk. Plenty of worries and difficult problems. But such has been my portion for a long time -- the upshot is that this just seems (today) like a continuation of all I've been doing since July '41 -- fifty-fifty 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 every bit tiring of the listen and spirit; but information technology also has, as I have said before, its inspirations which tend to counteract each other . . . There have been times in war where I thought nothing could be quite every bit wearing and trigger-happy as that with lives directly involved. But I would say, on the whole, this is the most wearing, although non necessarily, as I say, the nearly tiring."
The President's News Briefing at Key West, Florida, i/8/56

"Many people are ever saying the Presidency is likewise big a job for any one man. When I hear this exclamation, I always try to point out that a single man must make the last decisions that bear on the whole, but that proper organization brings to him only the questions and problems on which his decisions are needed. His own chore is to exist mentally prepared to make those decisions and then to exist supported by an organization that will make sure they are carried out."
Letter, DDE to Dillon Anderson, one/22/68 [DDE'southward Post-Presidential Papers, 1968 Main File, Box 36, "An"]

"On the other hand, I found that getting things done sometimes required other weapons from the Presidential arsenal -- persuasion, cajolery, even a piddling head-thumping here and there -- to say nothing of a personal streak of obstinacy which on occasion fires my boilers."
Some Thoughts on the Presidency, Reader'due south Digest, Nov 1968

Organized religion

"In other words, our class of government has no sense unless information technology is founded in a deeply felt religious religion, and I don't intendance what it is."
Address at the Freedoms Foundation, Waldorf-Astoria, New York Urban center, New York, 12/22/52

"Today I think that prayer is just simply a necessity, because past prayer I believe nosotros hateful an endeavour to get in touch with the Infinite. We know that even our prayers are imperfect. Even our supplications are imperfect. Of form they are. Nosotros are imperfect human beings. Simply if we can back off from those problems and make the effort, then there is something that ties us all together. We have begun in our grasp of that footing of understanding, which is that all gratuitous government is firmly founded in a securely-felt religious faith."
Remarks at the Dedicatory Prayer Breakfast of the International Christian Leadership, 2/5/53

"The churches of America are citadels of our faith in private freedom and man dignity. This organized religion is the living source of all our spiritual force. And this strength is our matchless armor in our globe-wide struggle against the forces of godless tyranny and oppression."
Bulletin to the National Co-Chairmen, Commission of Religious Organizations, National Briefing on Christians and Jews, 7/9/53

"From this day forward, the millions of our school 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, nothing could be more inspiring than to contemplate this rededication of our youth, on each school morn, to our country's truthful meaning.
Especially is this meaningful as we regard today'southward world. Over the globe, mankind has been cruelly torn by violence and brutality and, past the millions, deadened in mind and soul by a materialistic philosophy of life. Man everywhere is appalled by 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'due south heritage and time to come; in this style we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our land's most powerful resources, in peace or in war."
Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill to Include the Words "Under God" in the Pledge to the Flag, 6/14/54

"Faith is the mightiest force that human being has at his command. It impels human being beings to greatness in thought and word and act."
Address at the Second Associates of the Globe Council of Churches, Evanston, Illinois, 8/19/54 [Sound]

"We are essentially a religious people. We are non merely religious, we are inclined, more today than ever, to meet the value of religion as a applied forcefulness in our affairs."
Address at the Second Associates of the World Council of Churches, Evanston, Illinois, eight/19/54[AUDIO]

"Without God, there could be no American form of Authorities, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the outset -- the most bones -- expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw information technology, and thus, with God'southward help, information technology volition keep to be."
Remarks Recorded for the "Dorsum-to-God" Plan of the American Legion, ii/20/55

"Since the day of creation, the fondest hopes of men and women have been to laissez passer on to their children something improve than they themselves enjoyed. That hope represents a spark of the Divine which is implanted in every man breast."
Accost at the Signing of the Declaration of Principles at the Meeting of the Presidents in Panama Metropolis, 7/22/56

"The purpose is Divine; the implementation is human being. Our country and its government have made mistakes -- homo mistakes. They accept been of the caput -- non of the heart. And it is still true that the neat concept of the nobility of all men, alike created in the epitome of the Almighty, has been the compass past which nosotros have tried and are trying to steer our class."
Almanac Message to the Congress on the State of the Wedlock, 1/10/57

"Basic to our democratic civilization are the principles and convictions that have bound usa together equally a nation. Amid these are personal liberty, human rights, and the dignity of homo. All these have their roots in a deeply held religious faith -- in a belief in God."
Address at U.South. Naval Academy Start, 6/4/58

"The freedom of a denizen and the freedom of a religious believer are more than intimately related; they are mutually dependent. These ii liberties give life to the centre of our Nation."
Remarks at the Cornerstone-Laying Ceremony for the Interchurch Center, New York City, New York, x/12/58 [AUDIO]

RETURN TO Peak

Sports

"My abiding prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, delight let me swing slowly.' The problem 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 day Aks and I went up to your ranch for a twenty-four hours'southward line-fishing. I cannot remember any mean solar day when we have had more than fun on a stream. We had forth with us three paper men and a few cloak-and-dagger service people, many of whom had never seen a trout stream, so nosotros did the thing up correct by borrowing frying pans, bacon and corn repast from the wife of your rancher -- and we cooked an outdoor meal for the crowd. Information technology was actually quite a day."
Letter, DDE to Bal F. Swan, 8/15/53 [DDE'due south Papers equally President, Name Serial, Box 7, "Denver, 1953"]

"One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at beginning, to realize that there 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 so forth."
Remarks at the Briefing of the National Women's Advisory Commission on Civil Defense, 10/26/54 [AUDIO]

"And the other was this: the physician did want to take off my leg considering he thought information technology was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and and then they made their play; and if you lot couldn't play baseball and box and play football game, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds."
Radio and Goggle box Circulate: "The Women Ask the President," 10/24/56

"Just I retrieve a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, angling in the summer, and interspersing the whole affair with some golf and span -- and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever -- mayhap such a life wouldn't be so bad."
Alphabetic character, DDE to Alfred M. Gruenther, eleven/ii/56 [The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Volume XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Mode, Part XI, Chapter 22]

"I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Ground forces Navy Country Social club that the putting green hither on the White House lawn is already in such first-class condition. I clinch you lot that I get a great deal of pleasance and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional belatedly afternoon hour . . ."
Letter, DDE to Rear Admiral John S. Phillips, 4/12/57 [DDE'southward Papers as President, President's Personal File, Box 10, one-A-7 Golf (4)]

"Not but exercise I have a great love for the game of golf -- no matter how badly I play information technology -- but I have also the belief that through every kind of coming together, through every kind of activeness to which nosotros can join more oftentimes and more than intimately peoples of our several countries, past that measure we volition practise something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to and so much endure."
Remarks to Representatives of Earth Amateur Golf game Team Championship Conference, 5/two/58[AUDIO]

"Probably no one here knows I coached a football team -- a service squad -- playing against Georgetown. I think information technology was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little 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 Petty, who to this twenty-four hour period remains my very warm associate and friend."
Remarks at the Dedication of the Edmund A. Walsh Schoolhouse of Strange Service of Georgetown Academy, 10/xiii/58[AUDIO]

"Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, line-fishing, and shooting, and I do considering outset, they take yous into the fields. There is balmy practice, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on meridian of it, it induces y'all to accept at whatsoever ane time 2 or 3 hours, if yous can, where you are thinking of the bird or that brawl or the wily trout. Now, to my heed it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I practise information technology whenever I get a chance, as yous well know."
The President's Press Conference of ten/fifteen/58[AUDIO]

"Morale -- the will to win, the fighting centre -- are the honored hallmarks of the football game motorbus and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated instructor and scientist."
Remarks at the First Football game Hall of Fame Dinner, New York Metropolis, New York, 10/28/58[Sound]

"I think of going dorsum to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. Just you don't stop in that location. Kickoff base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy -- and you count on your teammates, you lot count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on start base was to get you around to count a run."
Remarks at a Republican Men's Luncheon in Cleveland, Ohio 11/4/60 [AUDIO]

"Yous did not tell me what you are doing athletically merely at present just I practice hope that if your arm comes along adjacent jump you can go it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. Nonetheless, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf game which after all is the best game of all of them."
Letter, DDE to grandson David Eisenhower, 11/17/65 [DDE's Post Presidential Papers, Secretary'due south Series, Box thirteen, Eisenhower]

"But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to take leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football game, perhaps more than any 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."
At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, page 16

State of war/Defence force

"I accept been called a Fascist and almost a Hitlerite - actually, I have one earnest conviction in this state of war. Information technology is that no other war in history has 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, Apr viii, 1943 [Eisenhower'south Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 173, Eisenhower John S.D. 1943-1946 (2)]

"Humility must ever be the portion of any man who receives acclamation earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends."
Guildhall Address, London, 6/12/45 [Audio]

"War is a grim, brutal business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil."
Transcription made for National War Fund at request of Col. Luther L. Colina, 9/11/45

"I hate war as simply a soldier who has lived information technology can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Accost before the Canadian Club, Ottawa, Canada, one/10/46

"Guns and tanks and planes are goose egg unless in that location is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind information technology."
Address to Economic Society of New York, Hotel Astor, 11/20/46

"State of war is flesh's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or propose its deliberate provocation is a blackness offense against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you practise 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 Us Armed forces Academy, 6/3/47

"Mayhap my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, in that location is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this proffer is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no 1 has been able to explain away the fact that state of war creates the conditions that beget war."
Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE'due south Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box 196, Carnegie Institute]

"Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life every bit nosotros proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from inside what we are trying to defend from without."
Voice communication before NATO Council, 11/26/51 [DDE'south Pre-Pres. Papers, Box 197]

"Americans, indeed, all gratuitous men, remember that in the terminal choice a soldier'south pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's bondage."
Countdown Address, 1/20/53[Audio]

"Each and all of us must summon to listen the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong homo, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'."
Statement on the Fourth Ceremony of the Signing of the Due north Atlantic Treaty, iv/4/53

"Every gun that is fabricated, 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 non clothed. This earth in arms is non 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 modern heavy bomber is this: a mod brick school in more than than 30 cities. Information technology is two electric ability plants, each serving a boondocks of sixty,000 population. It is 2 fine, fully equipped hospitals. It 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 unmarried destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best manner of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is non a way of life at all, in whatever truthful sense. Nether the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of fe."
Address "The Run a risk for Peace" Delivered Earlier the American Social club of Newspaper Editors, 4/sixteen/53 [Sound]

"Nosotros do not go on 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, five/twenty/54 [AUDIO]

"A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could y'all have one 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 war; that is war."
The President's News Conference of viii/11/54 [AUDIO]

"And the next matter is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the manner it is carried out."
The President's News Briefing of 3/23/55

"I take spent my life in the study of armed services strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of armed forces armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the start of these questions is still profitable, merely we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won."
Letter, DDE to Richard L. Simon, Simon and Schuster, Inc., 4/4/56 [DDE's Papers as President, DDE Diaries Serial, Box 14, April 1956 Miscellaneous (5)]

"When we become to the point, as we 1 twenty-four hour period volition, that both sides know that in whatsoever outbreak of full general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we volition accept sense enough to meet at the briefing table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human being race must conform its actions to this truth or die."
Letter, DDE to Richard L. Simon, Simon and Schuster, Inc., 4/iv/56 [DDE'southward Papers as President, DDE Diaries Series, Box 14, Apr 1956 Miscellaneous (5)]

"Arms solitary can give the globe no permanent peace, no confident security. Artillery are solely for defense force -- to protect from tearing assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to homo progress."
Address before the American Lodge of Newspaper Editors, Statler Hotel, Washington, DC, 4/21/56[Sound]

"We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from Dec 7th, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that fourth dimension, we have been waging peace. Information technology has had its ups and downs just as the state of war did."
The President's News Conference of vi/6/56

"The merely fashion to win the next world state of war is to preclude it."
Address at a Rally in the Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, x/17/56

"Nosotros must exist strong at home if we are going to exist strong abroad. We empathise that. So we want to exist strong at home in our morale or in our spirit, we desire to be strong intellectually, in our pedagogy, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily."
Radio and Television Broadcast: "The Women Inquire the President," x/24/56

"The promise of the world is that wisdom can arrest disharmonize between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I discover 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 whirlwind to those who hate cognition and ignore their God."
Accost at the Centennial Commemoration Banquet of the National Education Clan, 4/4/57[Sound]

"Kickoff, dissever ground, bounding main and air warfare is gone forever. If ever once more we should exist involved in war, we will fight information technology in all elements, with all services, as 1 single concentrated effort."
Special Message to the Congress on Reorganization of the Defense Establishment, 4/3/58

"Now this brings me to my primary topic -- our military strength -- more specifically, how to stay stiff against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security."
Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the International Press Institute, 4/17/58

"Outset, separate ground, body of water and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson nosotros 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."
Accost to the American Lodge of Newspaper Editors and the International Press Institute, 4/17/58

"Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the confront of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. Only in the process nosotros must not, by our own mitt, destroy or distort the American system. This we could practise by useless overspending. I know one sure style to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded war machine machines and concepts."
Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the International Press Institute, 4/17/58

"I know something nigh that state of war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly tin can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed strength to conquer the small and weak."
Radio and Boob tube Report to the American People Regarding the Situation in the Formosa Straits, nine/11/58

"Any survey of the free world'south defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resource must exist devoted to armaments."
Annual Bulletin to the Congress on the Country of the Union, 1/ix/59

"Simply all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights -- by attempting to placate assailment."
Radio and Goggle box Report to the American People: Security in the Free World, three/16/59

"In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of man values."
Accost at the Opening Session of the White Firm Briefing on Children and Youth, College Park, Maryland, 3/27/sixty

"In the councils of authorities, nosotros must guard against the conquering of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, past the military-industrial circuitous. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and volition persist."
Good day Radio and Boob tube Address to the American People, 1/17/61

"Morale is the greatest unmarried factor in successful war."
Cause in Europe, page 210

"Zip is easy in state of war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders."
Cause in Europe, page 450

"Nosotros need an acceptable defence, only every arms dollar nosotros spend in a higher place adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security."
Waging Peace, folio 622