Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time. -
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? -
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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. -
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
More quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
- Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.