Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Steady Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
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The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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I think the women, therefore, must be concerned with these values, and I return to my statement that if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
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Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first-the most basic-expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God's help, it will continue to be.
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It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
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Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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The chief of staff says I'm the guy.
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple. ... They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Only Americans can hurt America.