Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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.
