Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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In such a world-at such a time--'a decent respect for the opinion of mankind'-in the words of our Declaration of Independence-requires that we state plainly the purposes we seek, the principles we hold.
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Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.
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The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
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From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
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One hundred eighty years later, we know that the eyes of the world are fixed upon us. And we must ask ourselves: what kind of an example of freedom do we give to our age? What are the true marks of our America-and what do they mean to the world?
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It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative.
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
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These proposals spring, without ulterior motive or political passion, from our calm conviction that the hunger for peace is in the hearts of all people - those of Russia and of China no less than of our own country. They conform to our firm faith that God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
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This is something, eh, that is the kind of thing that must be gone through with what I believe is best not talked about too much until we know whatever answers there will be.
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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Our time of national political debate is almost ended. The clamor of these days will soon subside. And your day of thoughtful decision swiftly nears.
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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.