Eisenhower

It reminded me of the war--a great group of soldiers standing out here would have thought there was an awful lot of brass coming around the corner.

I tell you this: I am going to accept that invitation to come back, just as soon as possible.

Now, my friends, I just want to say this: never have I had a more pleasant time than I have had on these two days.

Someone told me that there was only one speech you could make in this town, which was quite long ago, that the good Lord could have made a better place than Lancaster, but he didn't.

Remarkable. Wonderful. Interesting.

We do not seek knowledge for itself.

If we are sufficiently devoted to the cause of peace, to the kind of progress of which I speak, we will be strong, and then we will be able to cooperate with others, because only strength can cooperate--weakness cannot cooperate, it can…

To each of you, my thanks for the warmth of your welcome.

I am not only grateful for what I have learned of New Hampshire this evening.

I am delighted to be here this evening.

No greater honor can come to any individual and citizen of this country than to be received in friendly fashion by a cross-section of his fellow citizens.

All of us want the institutions of America preserved.

You will be doing your full part in bringing about this age-old dream of mankind: peace on earth, goodwill toward men.

Our sons may stay at home, the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches, and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

I know that Americans everywhere are the same, in their longing for peace.

We know we must not sacrifice principle for mere expediency.

We know we must be determined.

To act as Chairman of the Government Unit in this important appeal, I appoint the Honorable Harvey V. Higley, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs.

Always in one hand will be the olive branch held out to all who will take it in honesty and in integrity.

In lieu of travel, we become stronger.

I come to you, not only to understand you better, but to ask you only to support, always, those principles, to think of them and to expand them in your own mind into method, as to how we shall do it.

Actually, I came here just to see you—to see people.

I ask that you give Mr. Higley your fullest measure of support and assistance and that all persons in authority in the Federal and District Government take a personal interest and extend their complete cooperation to this important…

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their cultures, as they may learn from ours.

When you have the mission of getting hold of the information, not only about the farm programs, but the things that will interest the whole farm community, you are doing a tremendously great service.