Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The Mutual Security Act was intended not to fight a war but to prevent a war.

If you can secure peace, you may be cursed by a lot of hotheads but … you will be blessed in Europe and by future generations

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

For a long time, perhaps too long, we believed that the world around us would become more and more peaceful, and the order more stable.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.

The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

Disarmament requires trust.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.