Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, Unique, Culture

• The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Wheat, Milk

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

• I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Warfare, Use

  Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly

• How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

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