I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Quote by Dwight David Eisenhower

Topics: Peace Quotes

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon...

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon...

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity...

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity...

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one...

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one...

We are proud because from the beginning of this nation man can walk upright no...

We are proud because from the beginning of this nation man can walk upright no...

I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory...

I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory...

I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago...

I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago...

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the...

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the...

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities...

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities...

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

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

When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise,...

When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise,...

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and...

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and...

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is...

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is...

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one...

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one...

Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those...

Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those...

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish...

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish...

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the...

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the...