Eisenhower: Old Thoughts but Forever Truths

12/1/2022

Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Violence Cannot Bring About Right."

"We got a peace of a sort almost five years ago [post World War II]. It has been more or less with us in the guise of what we call a cold war. … But there is a second kind of peace, and in our aspirations, it must be to bring to all men living together the confidence that bodily harm will not be used to make them agree—that violence cannot bring about right."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, May 1950

It would seem that this fundamental truth holds true whether it is in international relationships or within our own political system here at home. "Bodily harm" cannot be the means to make individuals agree. To preserve the freedom of speech, we have an obligation to listen to each other.

Peter E. Greulich, December 2022

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