Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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'.

Security and peace are not cheap.

War can protect; it cannot create.

The best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

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

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

Peace is a goal, but what we need first is security.

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.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.