Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. "The Chance for Peace." April 16, 1953. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, Office of the Federal Register, 1960.
The inscription was edited personally by President Woodrow Wilson.
Historically, this quotation seems like an endorsement of motherhood, but it was an extremely important statement at the time. Eisenhower was convinced to run for the Presidency as a Republican in order to stop Senator Robert Taft and the conservative, isolationist, right wing of the Republican Party. These Republicans opposed American support of the United Nations. Eisenhower won the Republican nomination, then the general election, and clearly announced to the country and the world, that the moderate wing of the Republican Party was in control and the United Nations was an important part of our foreign policy.
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower GCB OM GCS CCLH KC NPk was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front.