26 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower about Peace


  • Author Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Quote

    I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

  • Tags
  • Share




  • Author Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Quote

    For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Quote

    The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Quote

    So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent 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 way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Quote

    The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

  • Tags
  • Share