We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Interpretation
Peace creates an environment where freedom can flourish and thrive.
In this quote, Eisenhower emphasizes the intrinsic link between peace and freedom. He suggests that without peace, the conditions necessary for true freedom cannot exist, as conflict and turmoil inhibit the ability to make choices and live freely. The pursuit of peace is, therefore, not just a desire for calm but a vital essential for fostering liberty and independence in society.
In practice
This quote can inspire discussions in peacebuilding workshops.
If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.
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