| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1321 |
| AUTHOR: | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, radio and television broadcast with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, London, August 31, 1959.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959, p. 625. |
| SUBJECTS: | Peace |
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