President Eisenhower Quotes

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What happen to the Republican party?

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.


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.


People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.


Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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1. I've read them before, but...

it's always strange to look at those quotes and think of how far we've come. When freaking Ike is to the left of the most "liberal" Republicans -- and, in fairness, a good swath of Democrats -- how far have we come? How far does the greed and stupidity have to go until we won't take it anymore as a nation? Or will we be swept along, eventually becoming what we loathe, like Winston at the end of 1984, drooling to himself "I love Big Brother," before the hammer falls? I wish I could live to be 1,000, just to see how it all turns out.
But then again, maybe I don't. I'd like too much for it to have a happy ending, and I'm too convinced it'll end like Orwell.

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2. Help with a quote

When I was a kid, my mom (staunch lib.) had an Eisenhower quote on our fridge. Something about an iron cross and society.
Anyone know?

[B Calm]

4. "First: No people on earth can be held,

as a people, to be enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

Second: No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.

Third: Any nation's right to form of government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.

Fourth: Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

And fifth: A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations."

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/20/081343.php

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3. or this famous quote:

"In the councils of government, we msut guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought, or unsought, by the military industrial complex..."

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5. Eisenhower's farewell address 1961

Farewell Radio and Television Address to the American People by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961.

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Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peace time, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United State corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.


Link to entire address: http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/farewell.htm

Well worth reading.

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6. How Can You Forget This One???????

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/54

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7. hee hee, I like that one..