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.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general, US President (1953–61)

Broadcast with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, London (31 Aug 1959)