“ Today the hope of free men remains stubborn and brave, but it is sternly disciplined by experience. ”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Chance for Peace (1953). copy citation
| Author | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
|---|---|
| Source | The Chance for Peace |
| Topic | experience discipline |
| Date | 1953 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Delivered to the American Society of Newspaper Editors |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chance_for_Peace |
Context
“The hope of all just men in that moment too was a just and lasting peace.
The 8 years that have passed have seen that hope waver, grow dim, and almost die. And the shadow of fear again has darkly lengthened across the world.
Today the hope of free men remains stubborn and brave, but it is sternly disciplined by experience. It shuns not only all crude counsel of despair but also the self-deceit of easy illusion. It weighs the chance for peace with sure, clear knowledge of what happened to the vain hope of 1945.
In that spring of victory the soldiers of the Western Allies met the soldiers of Russia in the center of Europe.”
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